SETI Timer
Using SETI Timer
SETI Timer will compute an estimate of the time it will take to complete
a work unit.
Select the processor type and speed to match the one in your
computer. Select also the memory speed, taking in account the double data
rates of DDR and the quadruple rates of RDRAM and Dual Channel DDR (DC-DDR).
Finally, type the angle range of the work unit; the default value of 0.417
is the one of the work unit used for benchmarking by
Team Ars Technica Lamb Chop.
After you filled all the values, press "Calculate".
Credits
SETI Timer was written, and is copyright of
Alistair
Braidwood. The data used by SETI Timer is provided by Roelof
Engelbrecht, author of
SETI Spy. My thanks
to both of them for creating and mantaining this useful web application.
Notes
This particular variant of SETI Timer is different from the ones
available on Alistair's and Roelof's pages. Instead of using a custom
javascript file to compute the completion time, all javascript is generated
on-the-fly from the XML file "perfcomp.xml", using PHP. This XML file is
the same used by SETI Spy and KSetiSpy for the
Peak Processing Efficiency window,
and hence this arrangement makes it easier for me to update SETI Timer with
new data.
This page also makes a good demonstration on how to use PHP to read XML
files.
