Distributed Computing.

[Nick]

I read that, jerk.
But what does this have to do with Cantr?

[killerog]

Well not much to do with CANTR i suppose. I do dc with the biggest dutch team now for half a year i guess. I tried RC5-72, Seventeen or Bust and Find-a-Drug.

[Wim van de Griendt]

So does the SETI one have a Cantr group?

Yes, look at: http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_171999.html.
But it seems you cannot join the group at the momemt, because of a server problem.

[formerly known as hf]

DIMES is at www.netdimes.org

I love those 'internet IP and ISP maps' - fractal landscapes...
mmm...

[Anthony Roberts]

I read that, jerk.
But what does this have to do with Cantr?

I seem to believe this thread is in the Non-Cantr-Related Discussion group. Or, are you blind?

But for the portion that they WERE speaking of Cantr, they were discussing the possibility of setting up a chain of us users, connecting to a simple program like what these other posts speak of, in order to process calculations for Cantr, and make it go faster, without the need to spend mucho dollars on upgrading to another server, if and when the time comes.

[swymir]

Well as soon as it gets back up I will join up with the group. I see it already has a whole 3 members.

[Nick]

But for the portion that they WERE speaking of Cantr, they were discussing the possibility of setting up a chain of us users, connecting to a simple program like what these other posts speak of, in order to process calculations for Cantr, and make it go faster, without the need to spend mucho dollars on upgrading to another server, if and when the time comes.

That's the kind of answer I was looking for. That's what I was thinking, but I wasn't sure.

Swymir wrote:
So does the SETI one have a Cantr group?


Yes, look at: http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/sta ... 71999.html.
But it seems you cannot join the group at the momemt, because of a server problem.

So are you saying that what Anthony says MAY happen in the future, is already a possibility? How do we sign up? I imagine all the oldbie junkies like myself will contribute what we can.

[formerly known as hf]

SETI - searches for little green(or grey...) men - the Cantr group is just a group of SETI@home users who play Cantr I guess?

I doubt it's be really feasible to run one for Cantr - the database updating seems to done mostly in situ - maybe it'd be possible to set it up for the hourly updates though. The question is whether a bunch of players downloading the info to do a piece of the hourly update, then uploading it, would actually hog even more server than it does at the moment?

[swymir]

Yeah I think the seti@home program is just to analyze data. You aren't actually gathering the information yourself.