[mythtv-users] Putting spare CPU cycles to use

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Tue Apr 6 04:02:02 EDT 2004


On Monday 05 April 2004 05:01, William wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Does anybody use their MythTV machine for distributed computing projects
> (Seti, Prime95)? I see there is a Shutdown/Wakeup function, but have not
> found any mention of people using Seti except to diagnose hardware
> stability problems. I am considering attempting to build one of these.
> Thanks!
>
> --------------------------
>
> I currently run Seti on my IPcop firewall and it does not seem to have any
> impact on performance on that box. Have not tried it on my myth box as I am
> a bit concerned about heating issues with that processor running 100% all
> the time.

I run seti on just about all my machines, including my two Myth boxes.

> I recently completed my 3000th unit for seti :) They let me download and
> print a cheezy looking certificate for the event LOL.

Hm... I should look into that. I just double-checked -- I passed 4000 this 
weekend... ;-)

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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