SETI@home for PPC

by **damian** » Feb 19, 2003 @ 3:01am

Well, raw CPU benchmarks already exist, but those are irrelevant anyway since most people want PPCs to be fast to deal with video, games, etc. So a SETI@Home benchmark wouldn't really help.

by **sponge** » Feb 19, 2003 @ 3:35am

As for the client, I'm sure it could be ported, but no one seems to want to, so your on your own.

by **James S** » Feb 19, 2003 @ 5:31am

by **Dan East** » Feb 19, 2003 @ 9:39am

I don't know what the SETI software does (mathematically), but more than likely it performs floating point math, which the Pocket PC is terrible at. A single $600 desktop PC could do more processing in a minute than the PPC could do in an hour. Plus as Moose said, you would have to leave your PPC on, and the CPU would be running at 100% which would quickly drain the battery if you weren't on external power.

Dan East

by **goonzo** » Feb 19, 2003 @ 11:42am

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by **James S** » Feb 19, 2003 @ 5:06pm

by **jongjungbu** » Feb 19, 2003 @ 6:29pm

by **Presto** » Feb 20, 2003 @ 8:17pm

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by **randall** » Feb 20, 2003 @ 9:20pm

by **James S** » Feb 20, 2003 @ 9:25pm

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by **James S** » Feb 20, 2003 @ 11:21pm

SETI@home for PPC

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