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| I enjoy all kinds of activities and hobbies, but love to watch and read about investigations in science. I suppose these distributed computing projects are my little way of contributing. I think it is a very powerful opportunity considering the vast number of idle machines that sit running on a daily basis. When you factor in the multi-processor and multi ghz speeds that these things run now, most of us aren't utilizing these machine's potentials by just checking email and word processing! I hope more people will contribute to these worthwhile projects in some form or fashion. Rooms full of supercomputers are becoming things of the past. I'm reminded of ants or termites - individually it may not seem like they can do much, but when you put a bunch of them together watch out! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| There seems to be a bit of new interest in space study and exploration, especially given the possible again moon landings and looking to mars. All of these types of exploration projects unfortunately take big money and I can't really do much to help or contribute in that manner. With projects like SETI@home, I'm given an opportunity to help contribute to scientific knowledge/exploration by offering up something that is being wasted on a daily basis - idle time of my already running computer. I feel that distributed computing is not being utilized to its full potential. With more and more broadband connectivity and more computers running on a daily basis, why waste that downtime that really doesn't cost the end user anything extra? As I have stated in my profile, most of us, even while using our computers, are not utilizing the hardware to its potential anyway. For what most people use computers for on a daily basis, an old 486 pentium II machine with a laughable amount of ram would be enough! Come on folks - join in with worthy causes! |
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