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| Personal background |
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My name is Richard Huntington, I'm 43, married, and live in Shipley, England.
My hobbies include electronics, computers, reading, watching DVDs, drinking beer and eating pizzas in no particular order.
My favourite authors of all time are Robert A Heinlein, Larry Niven, Sir Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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To quote the late great Douglas Adams "In an infinite Universe, anything, even the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, is possible".
To quote James T. Kirk, "I always like to think there are ..... possibilties."
To quote Murphy "Perversity of the Universe tends toward a maximum"
Quotes aside, the universe is too vast a place to imagine that our planet is the only one that has given rise to life, intelligent or otherwise.
Whether the SETI project will find it is a separate question.
Why do I run SETI@Home? Mostly out of curiosity. What will the project detect? Will the results warrant a second SETI at a wider bandwidth? Regardless of the results, the technical acheivements of the Project have more than justified its existence. Over 1 million years CPU time in 3 years is a staggering acheivement.
I am proud to be a particpant in the largest distributed computing project on the planet. I am currently running SETI on all 9 of my personal machines, but have had to discontinue at work due to IT department policy. For those of you interested, I have
PC1 - Athlon XP3200 (2.2GHz) on Shuttle SN45G running W2K. (Rimmer)
PC2 - Athlon XP3200 (2.2GHz) on Shuttle SN45G running XP Home. (Queeg)
PC3 - Athlon XP3200 (2.2GHz) on Shuttle SN45G unning W2K. (Kryten)
PC4 - Athlon 64 X2 4200 (2.20GHz) on ASUS A8V running W2K. (Legion)
PC5 - Athlon XP3200 (2.20GHz) on ASUS A7V600 running W2K. (Lister)
PC6 - Athlon 64 4000 (2.4GHz) on Shuttle SN95G5 v2.0 running W2K. (Gordon)
PC7 - Pentium 4 631 3.0GHz HT/EM64T on Shuttle SB77G5 running XP Pro. (Cat)
PC8 - Pentium 4 640 3.2GHz HT/EM64T on Shuttle SB81P running XP Pro. (Mr Flibble)
PC9 - Athlon 64 X2 3800 (2.00GHz) on ASUS A8V running XP Pro. (Able)
Update 19/08/2014 : Sadly none of the above machines exist. My current boxes are
Lister : ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 running Windows 7 Pro on a FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-core
Kryten : Shuttle SN78SH7 running Windows XP Pro on FX-???? 2.5GHz Quad core |
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