I am a French student coming from La Défense (the
« French Manhattan ») near Paris. I am a 22 years old
student at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) engineering
college in Paris. I like to spend time with my friends for parties or to go
out in Paris. I also like playing computer LAN games. More briefly, having fun
during our free time is essential. I love my friends, electronic music, computers
and cinema (science-fiction, thrillers...) : « digital sounds »
are my passion.
I like computer science since I am 8 and what I especially
like in this is the fact that you can learn almost everything by yourself.
1988 - The beginning : Atari 1040STE, with an amazing capacity of 1MB RAM.
1994 - The PC is out there : my first PC, a multimedia workstation, powered by
an intel 486DX-2 66MHz with 8MO RAM. Upgraded and optimized with
32MO RAM and the fantastic AMD 486DX-4 100@120MHz.
1999 - My first high-speed CPU : a new PC with an AMD K6-2 350@400MHz.
With this machine I started to surf the Internet in septembre 1999.
2000 - A big change : the latest AMD Duron 700@1,036GHz with full-speed
L2 cache and 200MHz DDR-Bus.
2001 - Following the trend : an upgrade to the AMD Athlon 800MHz before another
change with the new DDR-SDRAM and an Athlon 1,2@1,4GHz.
2002 - A new eXPerience : following the trend I bought the state-of-art AMD Athlon
XP 2000 (1,67@1,8GHz) when it was launched in january.
I have now several PCs at home, and I am proud to offer to
my family my « old » compounds. Here the six PC running
SETI@Home :
AMD Athlon 1,2GHz@1,33GHz / 800@933MHz FSB 133MHz
AMD Athlon XP 2000 @2200 FSB 166MHz / 1900 / 2200 / 2400 |
I downloaded my first SETI@Home work unit on the 3rd of septembre 2001.
SETI and more precisely SETI@Home is a great initiative, because using Internet
as a means to distribute work units is simple and genius at the same time. The
SETI project is a wonderful idea and must keep on existing, since extra-terrestrial
life obviously exists in the Universe!
In my opinion, we cannot be alone! If we were, that would be terribly boring...
I hope that the Arecibo Radio Observatory - that I first saw in The X-Files
(episode "Space") - will help us in finding clues proving the existence of Extra
Terrestrial intelligence.
I run SETI@home because it's a great experience to share with now more than
4 million people in the world. Moreover SETI is a computer-based scientific
project, and that makes it much more interesting. I also run SETI@Home since
it is a means for me to play with other "SETIsers" and compare my machine's
capacity. |
