| Personal background |
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Powder Springs, Georgia, USA
Founder of "Crunching for a Better Tomorrow"
I like gaining knowledge and furthering human achievement. I hope to continuously gain more processors to run SETI (though I have not had much luck with the command line version yet). Any donations are welcome.
I currently have the following crunching:
Specs___________________________Average CPU/WU (hh:mm:ss)
Home:
PII 480MHz, 256MB-RAM, Win2k 18:00:00
P4 2.1GHz, 512MB-RAM, WinXP 4-5:00:00
AMD K6-2 300MHz, 128MB-RAM ,
Win2k (laptop) 56-86:00:00
PIII 1.7GHz, 180MB-RAM, WinXP 15:00:00
Work:
PII 400MHz, 256MB-RAM, Win2k 20:30:00
PII 400MHz, 180MB-RAM, Win2k 19:00:00
P4 2.7GHz, 256MB-RAM, Win2k 3-4:00:00
PII 400MHz, 150MB-RAM,
Linux (Red Hat 9) Non-Functional
I have plans for the following: |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I think that SETI has found a groundbreaking approach to scietific research. When SETI was dropped as a US government funded program, their dependency for survival fell on us, the public (of the entire world). As a non-profit organization, they depend solely on donations, either from individuals or institutions. SETI@Home allows millons (4.7 million and growing) to make donations to scientific research even if they have no money to give. Whether you believe in ETI or not, the world should support such causes as SETI if for no other reason than scientific achievement and furthering the human goals of knowledge and understanding. I believe other scientific research programs that can utilitize such technology as distributed computing should follow suit. Weigh the options: $200,000 USD for ONE SGI computer with 10's, 100's, or 1000's or processors or $10,000-USD for a couple of grad students to develope a distributed computing program to use millions of people's computers (some of whom have more than one or more than ten). |
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