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I am located in the US, in New York. I first became interested in computers in junior high school where I joined the computer club and learned to program in BASIC on a Commodore PET computer and through the school's time sharing on a DEC PDP-11 mini computer (using punch cards). I pursued my interest in computers and obtained a B.S. in Computer Science in 1987. Since then I have worked in software development. Although I've owned a variety of computers over the years, it was only in 2016 that I became interested in building my own computer. I wanted to practice Linux at home so I obtained a Raspberry Pi and it spurred my interest in computer hardware. Since then I have put together a Linux desktop machine that I use for BOINC, working remotely, and as a backup server for other computers in the household.
I currently have 5 computers working on BOINC projects to some degree:
- Desktop PC running Linux Mint (Linux) - AMD Ryzen 7 1700 + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (CPU and GPU tasks)
- KANGAROO portable PC running Ubuntu (Linux)- Intel Atom x5-Z8500 (CPU tasks only)
- MICROSOFT Surface 3 running Windows 10 - Intel Atom x7-Z8700 (CPU tasks only)
- Raspberry Pi 2B running Raspian (Linux) - Broadcom BCM2836 (CPU tasks only)
- Raspberry Pi 3B running Raspian (Linux) - Broadcom BCM2837 (CPU tasks only)
These machines are working on a mix of SETI, LHC, Rosetta, Einstein, GPUGRID, Milkyway, Universe and World Community Grid tasks.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I have always had a keen interest in science and its nice to think that I am contributing to scientific research in some small way by contributing excess computer power to this effort. |
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