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| Personal background |
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I am a computer scientist, working for a large telecom company in Germany in the area of research and development.
My hobbies include computers and my family has to suffer at least sometimes. I am married to a Japanese and have two very young daughters (2 years and 1 year).
My work experience made me stay for two years in Asia, namely Tokyo and Singapore.
I am a member of the Planetary Society which led me to SETI@home.
I am very interested in science fiction stories and movies which makes SETI a logical topic of my interests. I joined the project also due to the fact that SETI is a very interesting and ground breaking project in the sense of computer science - distributed computing with more than three million computers.
To provide more support for the project, I even upgraded my computer which now finalizes the computation of one data chunk in four to five hours - before it was 12 hours.
Remarks: My picture was taken in Hong Kong - it is not Germany - for the curious watcher. The overall time for one data chunk is a mixture of old vs. new computer.
For the technical curious: Dual AMD Athlon MP 'Palomino' 1,2 GHz each, 512 MB RAM, Tyan Tiger MP 2460 board - there's not much choice currently, Win2k and command line SETI client. Before that I used a Dual PIII 500 MHz. Average computation time is now: 4:30 hours. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I like this project very much, because many different people from different nations around the world are working on one goal. The goal is peaceful, challenging for mankind and somehow unites the efforts of mankind (the computational power of many computers).
This idea is so good, that it has my full support.
Especially in these difficult times currently it is the right thing that everybody can join this project, regardless of nationality, color and religion. That's the right spirit in my understanding! |
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