Can I run SETI@home 24/7 if I don have a permanent Internet connection?
There are a couple of ways of running multiple instances of http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ such that, if one instance finishes its Work Unit, another will take over, so making sure that your system is working flat out most of the time. Under Windows 98/NT/2000 Command Line (non-graphic), and various *ix flavours, multiple clients in different directories may be “chained” to run consecutively by specifying the “-stop_after_process” switch for each. When one Work Unit is finished, that client will stop and another will take over. When all clients are done, an Internet connection can be made to send all results and receive new Work Units. The process may then be repeated. Also, there’s the possibility of using one of the WU caching add-ons, such as SETIBuf or SETI Manager for Windows, SETI Unit Manager for Mac, or Hiram Clawson’s RunCache & FetchCache for Unix like systems (for example Linux). See section 3 and 4. Running several clients simultaneously on a single-processor machine, or r
