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| Personal background |
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Frustrated Physics degree owner stuck in computer support bent on adding untold scars to his fingers via unintented encounters of the sharp kind with woodworking tools. Then I play with Linux, has-been OS's and guns in the off hours.
My old AMD K6-III cranked a few data sets in about 25 hours. This was tiresome so I quickly moved it over to my new AMD Athlon 1.4. Running XP for several weeks produced results in about 6.4 hours. Switched to command line in Linux (SuSE 7.1) and now I average about 5.2 hours a set. Compared to computer modeling I did in college on an AT&T 3B2 this machine smokes pretty good.It's also the closest I've come to computer modeling since college so I enjoy contributing in some small way. Kinda justifies the toys I buy. It's what I tell my wife anyway. You guys gotta back me up. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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ET is certainly out there but with the distances involved we may just find traces of what used to be. I certainly don't expect any to come knocking, invited or not. That said, a beacon may make more sense if we broadcast our history: A repeating course on our art, history and science.
So running SETI is my hope we will find somebody else's EM time capsule and see what nature came up with in another world.
I would like to see a SETI version for a BEWULF cluster so that folks with more money than sense could do some major data crunching. |
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