SETI@home for PPC
Posted: Feb 19, 2003 @ 12:57amPage 1 of 2
Posted: Feb 19, 2003 @ 12:57amPosted: Feb 19, 2003 @ 3:01amWell, 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.
Posted: Feb 19, 2003 @ 3:35amAs for the client, I'm sure it could be ported, but no one seems to want to, so your on your own.
Posted: Feb 19, 2003 @ 5:31amPosted: Feb 19, 2003 @ 9:39amI 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
Dan East
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