Profile: Mark Hall

Personal background
I work for IBM Global Services managing the SNI environment in St. Louis, Missouri. I have firm beliefs that the efforts learned by the people driving this project will result in significant gains for the computer industry.
I'm currently running this on 4 machines, but will be installing a few more to perform other tasks on my home network, so hope to significantly increase the rate at which I complete data sets.
I like using this as a benchmark to compare performance against not only different machines, but also different operating systems on the same machine.

I'm 33 [born Aug, 1970], live just outside STL in IL, and am the webmaster and sound engineer for my church. Feel free to visit at http://www.niedringhausumc.org/.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Personally, as a Christian, I'm not so sure that aliens do really exist,
however, I do find the idea to be both exciting and scary. Obviously, there
would be the potential to learn some new things, but there's no guarantee we'd
get along with them any better than we do ourselves. :(

I think transmitting a beacon is certainly acceptable, but like I just said,
I really don't expect we'll get an answer. However, it's still worth searching
for. Wouldn't it be disappointing if we missed the call? Who knows, maybe
we'll decode a message that says "Hi. This is God. How are you today?"

I like running Seti@Home because I like the idea of finding an extraterrestrial
intelligence, although I also like the idea of not wasting the compute cycles
of the systems that I have running 24 hours a day. I also find it a useful
benchmark to compare various systems I have, and also the performance
differences between Windows and Linux. [guess which one usually wins?]

Suggestions - maybe present a white paper on how to break a large computing
project into a distributed project? I think it might be a cool paper to read.
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