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| Personal background |
Greetings!
My name is Michael, but I am usually known as Grand Admiral Thrawn (or just Thrawn or "GAT") on the web. I'm a 28 years old network administrator working at the University of Leoben in Austria, where some of the machines I'm working with are crunching for SETI and AstroPulse. Additionally, one or more of my machines at home are also doing some work for the project.
I'm a hardware enthusiast with a focus on current high end hardware as well as rare or exotic combinations of hardware from the late 90's, like my 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 prototype, or my Tualatin P III-S @ BX / @ i840 projects, or the Quad PPRO homeserver, or... you name it.
I have been active for the SETI@Home project for a long time now, shame that the SETIQueue Proxy server isn't there anymore. ;)
I'm also the former founder and webmaster of Hard:Overclock! (http://www.hardoverclock.com/, project suspended)
Now administrator and operator of the [XIN.at server] (http://www.xin.at/), which is an IBM PC Server 704 (8650-4M0) Quad PPRO server.
The following machines will crunch for this account as of 17.03.2009 (03-17-2009):
Novastorm:
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Location: @Home
Intel Core i7 920 "Nehalem" 2.66GHz @ 3.60GHz with 1MB L2 and 8MB L3, Uncore @ 3.24GHz.
iX58 "Tylersburg", BLCK 180MHz, QPI 3.24GHz/6.48MT/s
6GB DDR-III/1440 8-8-8
Running on Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, SP2
ginfra13:
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Location: @Work
Intel Pentium 4 "Northwood" 2.80GHz
i875 "Canterwood", quad-pumped FSB @ 400MHz
1GB DDR-I/400 3-3-3
Running on Windows XP Professional, SP3
ginfra23:
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Location: @Work
Intel Pentium 4 "Northwood" 2.0GHz
i850 "Tehama", quad-pumped FSB @ 400MHz
1GB PC800 Direct RAMBUS Inline Memory (512MB sponsored by Cosmonate! Thanks, man!)
Running on Fedora Core 4 Linux, Kernel 2.6
g1500532c:
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Location: @Work
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 "Wolfdale" 2.80GHz
iP35 "Bearlake", quad-pumped FSB @ 1066MHz
2GB DDR-II/667
Running on CentOS 5 Linux, Kernel 2.6
g60il10:
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Location: @Work
Intel Pentium II "Deschutes" 450MHz
i440BX "Natoma", FSB @ 100MHz
384MB SDR-SDRAM, PC100
Running on Windows 2000 Professional, SP4 |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
I have been running SETI for a long time now. Both out of fascination for the project as well as out of competitive reasons (Teams and Stats doing their magic). Also, back when I was still webmaster of Hard:Overclock, we used to to a friendly "SETI competition" against our partner site Tualatin.de, this was great fun. :)
About extraterrestrial civilizations themselves.. Well, if we believed Fermi and Drake, there has to be some form of life out there, right? But if we look at our planet and how long it took for it to produce a civilized species, it seems so very much unlikely that the same thing would happen somewhere else at the same time (or just a few thousand years back, so we could "hear" them now).
Furthermore, any (technologically civilized) life based on non-organic matter i guess is hardly thinkable, so we'd probably have to settle for carbon/oxygen and methane-based lifeforms.
Hopefully we will one day break the barriers of interstellar travel so we can just fly out and check for sure, if there is (or was) something. ;) |
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