| Personal background |
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For most of the first three years that I contributed to the SETI project, I did so using individually connected clients. I have since switched to using SetiQueue (http://www.reneris.com/seti/default.asp) in order to increase my output by not waiting for finished work units to be uploaded and a new work units downloaded. With SetiQueue, work units are queued and available on demand.
I am currently running various versions of the SETI client on Intel-based PCs and RISC-based workstations. Operating systems vary from Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation & Server, Windows 2000 Professional & Server, Windows XP Professional, HP-UX 10.20, and HP-UX 11.00. Processors range from Pentium II 333 MHz to Pentium 4 2.53 GHz and 300-450 MHz RISC chips with memory configurations between 64 MB and 1.5 GB. SETI clients include 3.03 CLI (Unix and PC) and 3.07 Windows.
On 07/02/2002, I joined my first SETI group - SkzDaLimit SETI Search Group (http://www.skzdalimit.com/seti/). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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While I cannot say for sure whether or not ETI exists, I do believe that it stands to reason that there may be others besides ourselves. I would think it rather peculiar that only one small speck of space (Earth) be populated. Perhaps we are only one of many experiments being run by a higher power.
I believe we should attempt to transmit some form of communication. Some believe such a communication would only be an invitation of conquest. To those I would say, if we continue our destructive ways, there may very well be nothing left to conquer, so what is the difference? We may get lucky find a way to get ourselves out of this fine mess we call civilization.
At first I ran the SETI client simply to take part in a global distributed network project that had a good cause at heart. Several such projects exist now, but I continue to contribute to mainly to SETI because of the time I have invested in it. Another distributed project I participate in is the Intel-United Devices Cancer Research Project (http://members.ud.com/vypc/cancer/).
Last updated: 07/02/2002 |
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