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I am a 46 year old computer programmer retiree from a major software company. My hobbies include genealogy, flying, playing violin, viola and cello, woodwork, metalwork, ion accelerators in significant atmosphere. I like to experiment with physics and build things electronic and otherwise in my basement, as well as write software and classical music.
http://timsherri.dynalias.net |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I run setiathome because it benefits mankind and I truly believe in the effort.
I love the new BOINC because it opens up the way to run distributed things on fairly random platforms (like sega dreamcasts running linux and mips boxes running windows) Some of the gaming platforms are being sold for cheap, SETI could get a major bang for the buck from people running setiathome on games.
Suggestions: Make cheap recievers/antennas available to anyone who wants to build/buy them, and combine the results to get additional coverage of the sky.
Have someone design a generic number cruncher 'computer' just for BOINC. FPGA's are probably up to the task by now. Make the VHDL/Verilog code available to anyone who wants it. Perhaps BOINC could be ported to VHDL? some of the speed issues could be resolved by heavy pipelining of the floating point calculations.
Try and talk Bill Gates, and/or Paul Allen into funding purchase of BOINC farm machines or even just plans for building machines with off the shelf parts(whatever they may be) as long as the machines are fairly efficient. (My basement is way too hot with PC's and Laptops running continuously) |
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