Profile: Alessandro Freda


Personal background
Ex amateur astronomer from Genova (Italy), that left his hobby because of light pollution and clima tropicalization of my region. The above image was integrated with a handmade Cookbook-245 CCD camera on a very old 400mm newtonian during one of the last nights that I've spent under the Genova very bad sky.

I'm a nonstop active user of distributed computing projects since 18 May 1999, starting with the SETI@home and migrate to BOINC platform only at the end of the SETI Classic project. Now I support mainly different projects like SIMAP and Einstein@home that in my opinion will product more useful and short-term results, and running SETI only on some (Unix) platforms that haven't others projects available.

I'm also a active user of the Stardust@home project. This project don't use CPU time resources, but the manual work of the "dusters" at the VM (Virtual Microscope). At the end of phase I (aug-2006 aug-2007), working about 90 min per day, these was my numbers:
Total Movies Viewed: 83385
Your Overall Score: 24029
Your Rank: 73 out of 24150
Specificity: 99.91%
Sensitivity: 99.92%
Now I'm involved in the phase II.

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