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I'm an IT professional supporting over 1000 Windows Workstations and servers running 98/NT/2K/XP and that range anywhere from 90Hhz up to the newest, latest and greatest 2(plus) GHz machines.
Unfortunately, at my current job, we are not allowed to load non-essential software onto our production PC's.... otherwise, I would have all 1000 units crunching data ;)
At my previous place of employment, I was able to run 25 workstations at a time. Currently, I only am able to use my home PC's and my personal workstation at work.
My Home PC is running with an AMD Athlon XP 1600 chip with 512MB RAM on Win98SE, running the i386-winnt-commandline SETI@Home Client. Since I am on dialup, I am also utilizing the SETIHide utility and its integrated Cacheing system to keep WU's going 24 hours a day. My 'career' average is 12hr 39min per WU, but keep in mind that I was running mostly on below-300MHZ processors for most of that. With My current setup, I am averaging a respectable 4hr 06Min per WU!
I first became interested in SETI@Home in early 2000 while researching Distributed Computing systems after learning about various Beowulf Projects in my collegiate CIS courses. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the ASCI Red Project (1.8 TeraOPS), the ASCI Blue-Pacific Project (3.9 TeraOPS), and the ASCI White Project (12 TeraOPS) - supercomputers which are designed and engineered to virtually create Nuclear bomb detonations, Killer Meteor Strike simulations, and other mass-computing research projects that are pertinent to our Nation and to our Planet.
That search led me to the SETI@Home disstributed computing network, which simply blows these supercomputers out of the water at 51.14 TeraFLOPs/sec (at the time of this writing).
I've been hooked ever since. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Do I think extraterrestrial life exists? I don't Know. I think that it does ... out there ... somewhere ...
However, do I think it is intelligent? Most likely not. More probably it is some microbial life. I am probably different from most people here when I say that. But hey.. It's my opinion.
If so, when and how will humans discover it? Via Unmanned space travel and deep space probes. and not for a long, long, long time.
Should humans transmit a beacon for others to find? If so, what information should we send? We already do. They are called TV, Radio, and satellite communications. The first signals anyone recieves from us will be Original Episodes of "I Love Lucy" and "The HoneyMooners".
Should we transmit a beacon? Sure.. a simple, repeating binary pattern. Something that is simple and pure.
Why do you run SETI@home? What are your views about the project? Any suggestions? might as well do something with that wasted electricity I am spending.
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