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Eric Korpela ![]() Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1331 Credit: 33,577,436 RAC: 59,706 ![]() ![]() |
We've been contacted by one of the authors of a book/multimedia project called "The Human Face of Big Data." They're looking to interview someone who is heavily involved in SETI@home (lots of computers) and is also participating in SETILive. If that's you, drop me a line and I'll help you get connected. ![]() ![]() |
![]() Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 7299 Credit: 2,287,564 RAC: 2,315 ![]() ![]() |
Cannot understand why the search is limited to SETI@home volunteers. Einstein@home, just to make an example, is getting its data from LIGO,VIRGO.GEO600, Arecibo, Parkes and many of its users are exploiting GPUs.Test4Theory@home users get data from CERN. Tullio |
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Cannot understand why the search is limited to SETI@home volunteers. Einstein@home, just to make an example, is getting its data from LIGO,VIRGO.GEO600, Arecibo, Parkes and many of its users are exploiting GPUs.Test4Theory@home users get data from CERN. Well, good question, Einstein@home didn't find any extra-terrestrial intelligence, but did find a lot of Pulsars, in data, see above, mentioned by Tullio. ![]() |
Eric Korpela ![]() Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1331 Credit: 33,577,436 RAC: 59,706 ![]() ![]() |
They may be looking for people involved in other projects. But they would make those requests to the other projects. Nobody would contact me in order to find people who run Einstein@home. ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 41219 Credit: 41,923,201 RAC: 7,685 ![]() ![]() |
I see this a a prime opportunity to gain some valuable PR for our project, and I think Eric was perfectly right to publicise it. C'mon guys, lets see some positive comments here. I can think of a number of Seti crunchers who could be up for this. Perhaps even the GPU Users group might want to nominate someone? Don't drink water, that stuff rusts pipes! ![]() Seti Classic 3280 workunits, 28,051 hours Member UCB Charter Hill Society You are making Proof out of Logic, by just being dubious! |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 14 Jul 05 Posts: 9 Credit: 3,167,018 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Really nice chance to keep spreading the cause!!! Congrats everybody! Only a boy with responsabilities of an old man |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 8 Dec 05 Posts: 630 Credit: 59,973,836 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I wonder why msattler springs to mind... :) |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 15542 Credit: 201,538,678 RAC: 72,615 ![]() ![]() |
There's several in the top 25 on RAC that spring to mine and a few more in the top 100 overall (just leave NEZ out of it). Cheers. |
![]() Send message Joined: 2 Dec 00 Posts: 12 Credit: 6,969,624 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I have always been a fan of distributed computing, seti@home and other projects as well. Everything can be simulated by a computer, it's a matter of creating the software simulation and how to code it so work is distributed to the huge number of CPUs & GPUs / APUS in server rooms, or to computers across the world. In that case, to provide different clients that are optimized for CPUs with different SSE instructions, and even ARM. I could see folding@home helping to cure a disease one of these days and I know that seti@Home provides a lot of good information about outer space. I don't have a huge amount of machines running, but I have always tried to get my whole family involved, everyone I know on Facebook, and once I converted a good amount of my college's computer to run them, without their permission. I did that many years ago with the distributed.net project, since the RC work units were short because the computers were restarted often. I wouldn't do something like that these days. My Asus G50VT laptop is a champ, I've been running Seti@home on the 9800gs GPU and the CPU constantly for years now with no hardware problems. |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 2180 Credit: 559,864,832 RAC: 422,310 ![]() ![]() |
I don't think I have enough computers to qualify (and 2/3 are crunching Einstein data) but at least it reminded me to register for SETILive. Much more productive use of idle time at work than surfing. :^) I also thought of Mark... “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” --- Margaret Mead |
CUDA ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Feb 09 Posts: 9 Credit: 667,181 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Nominate me, I am Team Founder of CUDA Crunchers for the SETI@HOME project. |
kittyman ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 50198 Credit: 966,680,519 RAC: 178,572 ![]() ![]() |
LOL...kitties and crunching. But, I don't do SETILive. Just boinking in Berkeley... So I don't quite fit the criteria. Nice to know that I come to mind though. Thanks everybody. "The secret o' life is enjoying the passage of time." 1977, James Taylor "With cats." 2018, kittyman ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 6494 Credit: 33,844,157 RAC: 11,975 ![]() ![]() |
just starting to read about seti live.. so it is not me. And being famous is never what I am about. Infamous perhaps.. Janice |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 41219 Credit: 41,923,201 RAC: 7,685 ![]() ![]() |
And being famous is never what I am about. Infamous perhaps.. Hehehe we'll expect you to live up to that! Can we we in time be updated as to who might have been chosen, and what the outcome was please. Don't drink water, that stuff rusts pipes! ![]() Seti Classic 3280 workunits, 28,051 hours Member UCB Charter Hill Society You are making Proof out of Logic, by just being dubious! |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 2180 Credit: 559,864,832 RAC: 422,310 ![]() ![]() |
Registering for SETILive yielded interesting results. Coincidentally, a reporter from the Chicago Tribune is doing a story on it, so I agreed to be interviewed about it. We ended up probably talking more about SETI@Home and the BOINC platform than SETILive. I'll post here when I find out when the story will run and any link to it. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” --- Margaret Mead |
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