| Personal background |
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I'm a 32 year old programmer from Silesia (it's a region in the southern Poland - for those, who don't know). Currently I work in a large telecommunication company in Germany as a software developer / consultant.
I own one desktop computer and 2 laptops. All of them work 24/7 for SETI@home when not used any other way (for playing World of Warcraft for example :-). I have another 2 older mainboards with CPUs in my basement. I was thinking about selling them on ebay, but now I have an idea to run SETI@home on them headless (without graphics card) instead. We'll see...
I use optimized boinc clients and SETI@home applications (Windows and Linux) - this way the performance can be even 2-3 times better than with the regular software. Your screensaver / graphics stops to work admittedly with optimized applications, but I think it's worth it anyway. Faster calculations are more important than graphics after all. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I'm fascinated with the idea of grid computing. SETI@home was the first project I learnt about, using this technology. Besides I'm a big fan of science-fiction and fantasy literature and movies. So I'm helping to search for ET instead of predicting climat changes. The other BOINC projects are plain boring to me :-)
Suggestions? Well... I think it was a bad idea to exclude computers without internet connection from the project. I know it's 21st century and everyone should have internet connection... but still, I think there are many machines out there, which can never be connected to internet and their power could be still utilized for SETI@home. With the classic version of the software it was possible to copy work units and results between computers. In BOINC environment it's no more an option. Bad move in my opinion... even if it prevents score-cheating better.
Another suggestion: someone make a decent optimized client for Linux running on AMD64, please! My desktop computer is dual boot Windows XP / Linux machine. I used to use mostly Linux for everyday tasks; XP is there only because of games. I tried everything to get a SETI Linux client to perform at least equally fast to the Windows one. Various optimized clients, even Wine with Windows clients. No success. The XP client performs nearly twice as fast, as the fastets Linux one I could get my hands on. No matter what I do. On the same machine, mind you, so the comparison is pretty exact.
Is it enough of "thoughts"? :-) |
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