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I am a consultant/project manager for a large IT systems integration firm based in the US,
and have been interested in SETI@Home since I first heard about it on NPR some years ago now.
I have been quite interested in distributed/parallel computing since I read a New Yorker
article that profiled the Chudnovsky brothers' search for billions of digits of Pi on kludged
equipment sprawled throughout their Manhattan apartment. This also led me to be one of the early
joiners of GIMPS (the "Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search".)
My Seti contributions are all run on old salvaged Mac hardware, and I have been making use of
Seti Unit Manager to cache the results...although all these machines are now networked, so I
guess SuM isn't really necessary now. There are, let's see...five ageing Macs (7500's & 8500's)
still making good use of their cycles, which will surely please any intelligent extra-terr that
they find have a good chortle! Now...if I could just get th e Unix client working on my old NeXT cube...hmmm. Surely any self-respecting alien would take notice of that!
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I really enjoy the thought of using such a crude tool to search for ETI. Putting the "S" in SETI, I guess! No doubt we'll be looked upon with glee and a certain nostalgia several millenia from now (or maybe next week?) for our naïveté. But hey, we work with what we're given...and slowly grope through the fog, stumbling as we go. The fun of it is, you never know what we may stumble into!
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