Thursday, October 27, 2011

Change of focus!

My aging collection of PC hardware is steadily falling back through the ranks these days and I find it a bit depressing to watch world ranking/country rank & team rank all erode. I have decided to go back to the project that started it all for me ... seti@home. I was surprised to see that I haven't even hit the 1 million mark in this project despite the years involved. From now on, most my resources will be concentrating on seti@home. I will obviously still remain attached to the other projects to ensure that I still get work while seti@home is down and due to the fact that I have some hardware that I can't get seti@home to run on (e.g. an ATI card under Linux).

My first step was to get my desktop (AMD X2 & nVidia GT9800) to run both CPU and GPU work units. It took a while and a few restarts but I got the app_info.xml file working eventually.