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| Personal background |
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Stagecraft and IT specialist, emphasis in PC and server hardware. Based out of Anaheim, CA.
Started on an Intel Pentium-II 400MHz CPU with 512KB L2 cache & 100MHz FSB; SDRAM ran at 100MHz. CPU TDP of ~24W.
Currently on an Intel Core i7 #6700K CPU @ 4.6GHz (Stock 4x 4.0GHz + HyperThreading) with 8MB of Smart Cache and an 8-GT/s DMI3 bus; DDR4 RAM runs at 3000MHz. Stock CPU TDP of 91w (TDP is 118w overclocked).
Also using a PNY GeForce GTX 760 GPU, 2GB GDDR5 VRAM, PCI-Express 3.0 x16, 1152 CUDA cores, 1110MHz CPU clock (boosts to 1176MHz), 6208MHz memory clock. 170w TDP (active).
Less than 5x more the TDP, and a lower vCore than the old Pentium-II, yet the performance difference is incredible, magnitudes better. It used to take me about two days to complete a SETI work unit; now, about 190 minutes on a single CPU core. Only 9 minutes if the GPU does the work. Astounding! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Been running SETI@home since the late 90's. Always thought it was a noble use of distributed computing, before the buzzword was even created. Scanning the sky for radio patterns with too much data to analyze on a supercomputer? Sign me up!
I remember one day back in probably the year 2000, my SETI@home client was flashing this crazy alert. It found something!! A true pattern in the fast folding algorithm, triplets actually, of a (relative) large burst. Upload me, it screamed... I was so excited! I uploaded it while dreaming of being famous for helping to discover extraterrestrial life. Well, that never happened. Maybe one day!
I know radio time is expensive from a capturing perspective, but I think it would be useful to know more about the project. Constant updates on the project would be most welcome (and an interesting read). Look forward to seeing you around on Earth! |
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