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| Personal background |
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I am a Management Information Systems major at Bradley University in Peoria, IL and used to be an Electrical Engineer major. I love working with computers, servers, networks, and hardware.
I am also currently in the Top 100 SETI@Home participants worldwide (#70 as of September 13, 2009) for SETI@home RAC, and the #1 participant on the Bradley University Team.
Below is a list of notable computers I have running SETI@Home:
* [Fuego]
- Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale @ 3.2 Ghz
- 8192 Mb Corsair XMS2 PC6400 DDR2 Ram
- 640 Gb Western Digital Sata HDD
- EVGA GTX 470 1280 Mb Graphics Card (Cuda Enabled)
- Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Edition, Build 06.01.7000.00
- SSSE4.1 Optimized
* Dell PowerEdge 6450 4U Rackmountable [Xeonserv]
- (4x) Intel Pentium III Xeon 700 Mhz Processors
- 8192 Mb of RAM ( 16 x 512 Mb ECC SD-RAM )
- 14 SCSI Ultra160 10,000 RPM 36 Gb Hard drives in RAID5
- 4 SCSI Ultra160 10,000 RPM 146 Gb Hard drives in RAID5
- 3 Redundant 275 Watt Hotswapable Power supplies
- Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x86 Edition SP2
- Gigabit Network interface
- SSE Optimized
* Sun Blade 150 [Bladeserv]
- TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird) sun4u @ 550 Mhz
- 512 Mb DDR Ram
- 40 Gb HDD
- Debian 5.0 Linux, Kernel 2.6.26-2-sparc64
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All computers listed below are running
Seti@Home in the Bradley University MIS Lab
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* (4x) Dell XPS 710
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield @ 2.4Ghz
- 4096 Mb DDR2 Ram
- 160 Gb Sata Harddrives
- Windows 7 Enterprise x64
- SSSE3 Optimized
* (4x) Dell Optiplex 755
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield @ 2.4Ghz
- 2048 Mb DDR2 Ram
- Windows 7 Enterprise x64
- SSSE3 Optimized
* (7x) Dell GX620
- Intel Pentium D CPU @ 3.40GHz
- 1024 Mb DDR2 Ram
- Windows 7 Enterprise x64 / Windows XP SP3 x86
- SSE3 Optimized
* Dell PowerEdge R710 [GuiltySpark]
- (2x) Intel Xeon i7 Quad Core E5520 Gainestown @ 2.27GHz
- 16 logical cores (8 physical cores with 2 threads each)
- 12288 Mb DDR3 1066 Mhz Ram
* Dell PowerEdge 2950 Mark III [Mjolnir]
- (2x) Intel Xeon Core 2 Quad E5405 Harpertown @ 2.00GHz
- 8192 Mb DDR2 Ram
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64
- SSE4.1 Optimized
* Dell PowerEdge 2950 Mark II
- (2x) Intel Xeon Core 2 Quad E5320 Clovertown @ 1.86GHz
- 8192 Mb DDR2 Ram
- Ubuntu 8.10 x86, Kernel 2.6.27-7-server
- SSE4.1 Optimized |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I started running SETI@Home as the result of a "computing" match between some of my friends at Bradley University. We lived in the dorms, and thus didn't pay any extra for additional electricity used by more computers in our rooms. It was then that we realized how warm we could keep our rooms using only computers.
Since then, many of us have moved off campus and now have to pay for additional electricity used, so have toned down a lot of that abundance. One of my friends, however, lives in an apartment which uses electric heat for the whole building. So instead of using the built-in electric heater, he has been using any computers he can get his hands on running seti to provide heat this winter. We are currently working on a project involving a disk-less SETI "farm" made up of a bunch of older Sun Ultra5/10/Blade100 computers, which are controlled via a Thermostat plugged into the Farm manager via a serial port. This will eliminate the need to manually turn on and off all the machines he has running SETI.
I now also administer a computer lab on campus for the MIS department. So what do you do when you have a bunch of powerful machines at your mercy that are just sitting idle most of the time? You install BOINC on all of them!
I have also become rather interested in Nvidia's Cuda and it's capabilities, and have SETI for Cuda running on as many Nvidia cards as I can get my hands on (Four 8600 GTS's in the lab, and one GTX 470 of my own). You can see a more detailed list of most of the computer's I have running BOINC/SETI above in the "Personal background" section. |
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