1) Message boards : Number crunching : GPUs greatly outperforming CPUs? (Message 1064694) Posted 8 Jan 2011 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Thanks, everyone, for your useful information. Clyde

2) Message boards : Number crunching : GPUs greatly outperforming CPUs? (Message 1064376) Posted 7 Jan 2011 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Thanks. Got another question: I understand that the top CPUs usually compute eight or maybe 16 instances. How many instances do the top GPUs crunch?

3) Message boards : Number crunching : GPUs greatly outperforming CPUs? (Message 1064031) Posted 6 Jan 2011 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: I look at the elite computers and I see that the CPUs are taking about 50 seconds to compute one credit, but that it takes only about six seconds for their GPUs to crunch one unit. Is this correct? In other words are the best GPUs crunching about eight times as fast as the best CPUs? Thanks.

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Einsteins really mess up my computer. (Message 1020571) Posted 29 Jul 2010 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Thanks to everyone who responded. Detaching from Einstein has really helped. Clyde

5) Message boards : Number crunching : Einsteins really mess up my computer. (Message 1019135) Posted 24 Jul 2010 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Thanks, but where do I find "Detach"? I cant find it anywhere.

6) Message boards : Number crunching : Einsteins really mess up my computer. (Message 1018647) Posted 23 Jul 2010 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Could you please tell me how I can divorce myself from this project? I dont see any way to do this via "Preferences". Setis dont seem to cause me any problem. Thanks.

7) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Big blobs of mystery goo floating off Alaska coast (Message 919044) Posted 18 Jul 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Analysis will have to be done on it to see what it is. Microscopic, chemical and whatever.

8) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Think. Drink. Think again. (Message 914368) Posted 5 Jul 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: A little alcohol is supposed to be GOOD for the body. Now if it interacts with something that might not be so good. We'll just have to wait to see what, and in what concentrations, was in Michael Jacksons body. We should get something from those autopsies provided his family, etc, allows release. My guess is that he was probably taking too many and too much drugs that interacted and poisoned - perhaps like Elvis in 1977. They were probably in the "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" (Faron Young- C&W- May, June 1955) category.

9) Message boards : Number crunching : I don't think Seti@Home likes me much today....... (Message 914361) Posted 5 Jul 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: It looks like I can't even get any Einsteins. Maybe I'll just turn off my machines tonight if there's no work to crunch. Also I notice that it's cooler in this computer room - more comfortable but at a price.

10) Message boards : Cafe SETI : A Beer or a Coke? (Message 914004) Posted 4 Jul 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Beer is probably better for you provided it's taken in moderation. Coke is just carbonated sugarwater that provides empty calories and a little caffeine. Even diet coke is just probably chemicals and probably not good for you. I'm enjoying a beer as I write and havent had a soft drink in my house in at least a decade or so.

11) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Why SETI won't detect anything? (Message 913320) Posted 2 Jul 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: We need to collect and study many orders of magnitude more workunits than we do now. Pointing the scope at one little area of sky no larger than a lunar mare for a minute or so isnt going far enough. We need to study many areas of the sky almost continuously.

12) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : special relativity (Message 910186) Posted 22 Jun 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Maybe there is an analogy with light and sound: If a stationary train were blowing a whistle at 200 Hz the soundwaves would be separated by 350/200 = 1.75 meters. If that train were traveling toward a listener at 50 meters per second the sound would be traveling, still, at 350 meters per second but the waves would be separated by (350-50)/200 = 1.5 meters. The pitch would be increased to 350/300 times 200 Hz to that listener of 233.3 Hz. Out front, the sound would be traveling at 300 meters per second relative to the train but 350 meters per second relative to the listener. The result is a pitch to the listener increased to 350/300 that of what is put out by the horn. After the train had passed the pitch would drop to 350/400 that of the horn or 175 Hz.

13) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bob Bogle has passed on.... (Message 908427) Posted 17 Jun 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Yeah, I remember the Ventures' "Walk, Dont Run", popular in 1960.

14) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (17) Server problems (Message 908424) Posted 17 Jun 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: I see only about three hours of tasks left. It'll be Einstein or else I'll have to turn off my machines tonight.

15) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Screensaver Glitch (Message 908181) Posted 16 Jun 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: I had had a problem with my Boinc screensaver, too. Often it would not clear when I moved my mouse, etc, so I could not work with the machines. Maybe something else was to blame. At any rate, I just defeated the screensaver and all is well. After a few minutes of inaction the monitor turns down to "standby" anyway, saving the fluorescent behind the liquid crystals, which is much better than a screensaver which just sets the crystals to maximum opacity with the fluorescent still being on (I think).

16) Message boards : Number crunching : Panic Mode On (17) Server problems (Message 908177) Posted 16 Jun 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Yes, I see one-third fewer tasks listed on each of my two computers. I figure it'll work itself out soon. If not, there's Einstein.

17) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Did Viking missions to Mars in 1976 find life after all? (Message 907886) Posted 15 Jun 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: I don't think there's been any proof of life, past or present, on Mars yet. Years ago, but I don't think it was as far back as 1976, there was a rock (possibly a meteorite that was a piece of Mars) that showed what looked like fossils of germs. I don't think the Vikings did much more than show the rocky deserts of Mars. Or were they just the ones that showed craters? Maybe they just orbited (that long ago).

18) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Sooooooooo........... (Message 907329) Posted 13 Jun 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Theres no way that Connie Francis wrote "Whos Sorry Now"!. Even though she had a popular hit of it about April 1958, Isham Jones, Marion Harris and three others all had 1923 hits of this song. Connie Francis was born sometime around December 1938, I believe.

19) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Allen telescope update (Message 907325) Posted 13 Jun 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Those Allen dishes are probably stretched out over an area of much more than 40 meters diameter so they can act as an interferometer of high resolving power. However if their total area equals that of a 40-meter dish their sensitivity would be much less than that of Arecibo.

20) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Alphacrusis (Message 907321) Posted 13 Jun 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: I don't think we Earthlings have made any attempt to contact any aliens. If so we would have built some extremely powerful narrowband transmitter and used Arecibo or possibly some big steerable dish as the beam antenna. Any TV or other signal that we generated in the past is infinitesmally weak because of its relatively wide bandwidth and omnidirectionality. Anybody out 57.5 lightyears would have to be awfully technologically advanced to be able to pick out the first transmissions of "I Love Lucy", for example, or radio transmissions of Del Wood playing "Down Yonder".

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