| Personal background |
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I'm Canadian through and through, from Newfoundland but living in Alberta now...
I studied Physics and Astrophysics in university, and if I've learned anything so far, it's that you should be very careful with superlatives like 'all' or 'none' or 'never' or 'always' or 'everything' or 'nothing' - you often shoot yourself in the foot while sticking it in your mouth with a plate of crow when you start thinking you know something comprehensively. The point is that we most likely don't know everything about anything!
Endeavours like this project, and others, are worthwhile just by daring to keep asking questions, trying to learn more... My computer often sits idle, and if it can help to model world climate and search for extraterrestrial life while I'm off at work or sleeping or making supper, then I'm all for it. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why do I run SETI@Home? -Why not? I like the idea that everybody running this program round the world, in the background, while they don't need the computer time for themselves, together provide computer power much greater than the fastest supercomputer on Earth. I love the idea of the new BOINC architecture, where people will be able to selectively distribute their excess computer time to projects they personally deem important.
I hope more researchers looking for difficult answers to important questions will take advantage of the tremendous opportunity BOINC provides. The two other projects imminently available on BOINC, those of protein-folding and climate prediction, are also endeavours worthy of my computer's time. BOINC's contribution to the climate prediction project has the potential to overshadow that of the Earth Simulator supercomputer in Japan (the world's fastest at ~35 TFLOPS) at a fraction of the cost to researchers! |
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