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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Dumb Woob on January 30, 2002, 06:47:33 am

Title: Whats this seti@home thing?
Post by: Dumb Woob on January 30, 2002, 06:47:33 am

i dled it and started doing some of those calculations, i\'m not worried about the CPU usage, but does it suck up any bandwith?

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Post by: Dumb Woob on January 30, 2002, 06:59:02 am

its in the support us section of the main site...

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Post by: mistwalker on February 06, 2002, 12:16:05 pm

I believe it uses you cpu for doing calculations for buildeing the game, effectively using the web as parralell prosessing power. It would use bandwith, yes, although some programs like it only operate when your connection is idle. Anyway, it depends on the program.

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Post by: Dumb Woob on February 09, 2002, 08:39:07 am

its actually a calcluation looking for radio signals in outerspace, if planeshift gets enough units calculated it will get alot more publicity, so get a calculating!

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Post by: meket on February 09, 2002, 11:38:09 am

i was wondering abou tthat myself....i looked at the site and was thinking to my self wtf is this then i got the hell outa there and looked outside at the satalites that are taking pictures of me....i think its major league baseball hahahah.. (the simpsons fans might know what im talkin about)  8)  :D

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Post by: Kada-El on February 09, 2002, 03:44:25 pm

There is a similar program available, that uses your CPUs idle time for calculations in cancer research.

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Post by: Tearlach t'an Ailech fin Leros on February 11, 2002, 05:16:06 pm

Where can you find this cure for cancer program?

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Post by: Dwinney on February 11, 2002, 05:53:36 pm

I believe it\'s at http://www.ud.com
Btw, the research is not restricted to cancer now. I think you can also do anthrax. You can choose to run the program as a screensaver.  :D