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| Personal background |
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Currently I am working as a post doc in the group for scientific computing at the computing center of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute Foundation for Polar- and Marine research in Bremerhaven/Germany.
I studied high energy physics in Dortmund and got a PhD in theoretical biophysics from Humboldt-University Berlin.
My first computer experience dates back to the early eighties when my grandfather gave me a Z80 home-computer called Sinclair ZX80 to be programmed in basic.
Nowadays, I am working with supercomoputers in climate and earth system modelling, mainly engaged in user support and programming for coupling models for atmosphere, ocean and sea-ice at institutions such as ECMWF (UK), ZIB, AWI and HLRN (Germany).
My current software project is an efficient user-interface to the most popular parallel linear equations systems solver libraries obtainable on the web.
The code name is FoSSI: Family of Simplified Solver Interfaces. It also contains a superinterface through which the solvers from PETSC, MUMPS, PILUT, AZTEC and HYPRE can be accessed and steared by a unique subroutine call.
The user may undertake a rapid solver intercomparison for his code, allowing to select the most efficient/scalable solver for his particular problem.
I had SETI run on SGI and SUN.
Currently I have it on my PCI-card in my desktop SUN-blade100. It runs
under Win2k on a 733MHz Celeron with 128 MB.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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To my opinion the probability that there is extraterrestrial life is very high.
Together with the increasing amount of detected solar systems being similar to ours, and planets partially covered by water, it seems even reasonable that there exist earth-similar life forms.
However, I think the discoverage of signals of these life forms wont change our view on the own planet, especially humans way to consume it.
Also, due to physical principals, it certainly is not possible to travel to such a planet, nor to communicate with life forms on it in a bidirectional way.
Still I find SETI@home useful, as -in the first place- it demonstrates that there is a big community with shared interests in contributing to sceince, and in the second place SETI@home examplifies the fact that data-processing can be a real hard task.
I would like to have from SETI@home a high resolution poster illustrating the regions that are scanned, overlayed with images in the optical/infrared and radar spectrum.
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