I'm the Co-site Admin at the AMD Users Distributed Computing Team forum http://amdusers.com . I started messing with computers as a laboratory scientist with an IBM SY/36 mini-computer and got bitten by the PC bug when the original IBM-PC/XT was released. Now I manage a mini farm ranging from AMD Athlon XP 2100+ to a couple of dual core Opterons and X2s. Recently acquired an Intel Core 2 Duo e6600 that is quite impressive as a cruncher.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.