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Well, a 500 MHz mac will crunch a WU in 12 hours, and a 2 MHZ Athlon will do it in 3, so the time/MHz performance is the same. With G4s maxing out at 1.4 GHz and P4s at 3 GHz+, the short answer is no way in hell will a mac match the WU throughput of a Pentium. Sorry.

I'm running a 1GHz DP MDD at home, with two Seti clients running, and a P3 933 running OS/2 Warp 4.51 at work.  I'm averaging about 9 wu/day out of the combination, three from each processor.

The Seti@home client is not compiled with any optimizations.  There are just too many OS and processor combinations to be sure that everyone is doing exactly the same thing otherwise.  This is one app where processor speed means almost all.  There can be some speed bumps if you have good L1 and L2 caches versus no cache.

but then again, dual procs

Windows PCs can have dual CPUs, too.

It's a whole new ballgame with those puppies, with their faster processors, bus speeds, memory, you name it, I'm sure they will just scream.

With 9 fans, I think they will fly.

If Seti@home decides to make a 64-bit version suited for the G5s, we could well see 1 hour per unit per processor.. Imagine... 50 units/day.

Just for comparison:

1) P4/3.2 800FSB 1:22
2) P4/3.0 800FSB 1:29

These are crazy numbers; and if the benchies were carried out using HT, and running 2 copies of the client, there will be an additional 5-10% increase in production.

The people in my ex-Folding team had a pool in which every member contributes abit and the Mod or Admin buys a fast Machine and process WUs for the team. Should we start collecting?

While Mhz do matter with S@H, it's not the only factor.

My friends 1.8Ghz DP Athlon is 80% higher on the Mhz scale than my 1Ghz DP G4. But only does WU's 42% faster on average.
Also, my 400Mhz G3 Powerbook is about 50% faster than that same friends 600Mhz Celeron laptop.





Moi

well I can tell you from my experience w/ the PC I just built that it really blows away what my iMac can do.  iMac does about 1 a day and PC has done up to 9 or so a day.

since it seems Mhz is the defining factor my iMac is 400mhz and my pc is an AMD Barton 2500+ which I've overclocked and I'm running at 2.1Ghz.

On the plus side my output has shot through the roof and I'm moving up the list fast.  1440 now and moving fast.

Eric

I'm running at a 200mhz FSB.  I'm sure if I lowered it and raised my multipler up I could hit 2.3Ghz.  I've seen people get quite a bit higher then that too. 

Anyways before we get into a pissing contest we are on the same team I assume.  so the better we are the better for the team.

eric

PS you tried running prime 95's torture test for 12+hrs?  you might be stable but this is a great way to see how stable you are.  Basically it computes some numbers until a number doesn't match its list or you quit it.  I ran 25hrs error free.

You mean you have a dual G5?  Load up two copies of the command line client and tell us what it averages per work unit!  It should be fantastic.  It would be pretty danged good if all it was doing was keeping pace with a G4 5410 on a clock for clock basis, but presumably it's going to be much better than that.  I wonder if the second FPU gets used much at all, or if code really has to be recompiled to use it well.  If the second FPU is getting used, a dual G5 is just going to be scary at Seti.

EDIT: Those G5 systems have power/noise management stuff where they're usually underclocking the CPU.  So I wonder what happens when they're running Seti?  I guess it would run the CPUs full speed since the OS would see the CPU utilization at 100%.