SETI@home shuts down after 21 years • Hacker News Board

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by carterehsmith » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:03 AM UTC

rconti wrote: post #54

alliao wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Celeron 300A, the relative poorer man's Pentium

oh man I had a Celeron 300A that ran at 464mhz for yeeeeears. Hit the 504(?) day uptime bug where the counter reset to 0.

464? I run mine at just 450 and I was so proud of it. Now, this 464 -> 450 explains (I hope so) why I lost so many online Quake 3 battles ;]

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by redis_mlc » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:04 AM UTC

I always told people to do mersenne prime search instead of s@h.

https://www.mersenne.org/

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by radec » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:04 AM UTC

dirtyid wrote: post #44

I wonder how much $/co2 of power was spent during the lifetime of the project.

This is why I never did it. I remember thinking it was really cool back when I was in high school, but could never justify the electricity use.

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:05 AM UTC

wtallis wrote: post #35

alliao wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Celeron 300A, the relative poorer man's Pentium

Weren't they also supported by the Abit BP6 motherboard, letting you use two of them as poorer man's Xeons?

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Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by blurbleblurble » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:07 AM UTC

2020 is one messy year

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by jmuhlich » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:07 AM UTC

unixhero wrote: post #45

sitzkrieg wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the best part is that durons were better than celerons and cheaper for quite some time

The duron had a pencil trick which unlocked it somehow. I don't remember the details.

The Duron had a set of circuit traces exposed on the ceramic chip carrier that were cut by laser at the factory to set the maximum allowed clock multiplier (and thus its final speed). You could reconnect all the cut traces with pencil lines and use a motherboard that let you set the multiplier directly to overclock freely.

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by rdxm » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:07 AM UTC

well, this is a sad day.

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by deepspace » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:13 AM UTC

coupdejarnac wrote: post #47

Ah, good memories of being temporarily banned in the EE labs at UT Austin for running set@home on a bunch of the unix boxes. Must have been around 2000.

I got chewed out at my workplace around 1999 or so. We had a couple hundred SUN workstations on the network and anyone could run commands remotely on any workstation. So I set up a cron job to spawn SETI@home jobs on every workstation every night at 9pm, shutting them down at 6am the next morning.

I was way up there in the rankings for a while, until the sysadmins started investigating the strange traffic patterns...

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by OJFord » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:14 AM UTC

partiallypro wrote: post #11

Does that mean folding@home is next? I think the screensaver dying out eventually killed it. Also cloud computing.

Ah, I used to fold. Sometimes I regret that I'm too young to hve enjoyed the early 'glory days' of personal computing, but thinking about it now, buying CustomPC magazine and finding inside it the team's folding@home league table will sound pretty weird one day, if it doesn't already.

Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years

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Post by 3pt14159 » Wed, Mar 04, 2020, 12:16 AM UTC

Man alive. I first ran some SETI@home stuff on my gaming rig in 2001. After a year or two I figured it was wasted energy. Surely they had more efficient rigs helping out than my lowly Unreal 2004 machine, right?