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| Personal background |
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We are a young couple in Staunton, Illinois. I am a physician practicing internal medicine and pediatrics. Soosi stays at home taking care of Charley. Charley is our little joy. Soosi and I met in India when I was doing volunteer work there.
For the Kannadigas out there - naavu bangaluurinalli noodive, aidu varsha hinde. Soosi mysuurina talukinda idaale. namma madhave aitu murru varsha hinde. iiga nange tumba chenagide, nanna henditi jote. Forgive me for my poor Kannada! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I think space is so large that other intelligent life must be somewhere else. Whether they would be sending out a signal so strong that we would pick it up might be less likely...in any case, the SETI @ Home project is an interesting use of distributed computing. I like the idea that the computer is actually up to something useful.
We run SETI @ Home on our two home computers that are capable of it...the old hulking 286 machine and the VIC 20 sit unloved in the basement. My desk computer at work is also running it through SETI Driver, which is a great way to keep a "seldom connected" computer part of the project.
Finding a signal would be great, but the skills in distributed computing might be even more useful in the long run. Just imagine the amount of sheer number crunching that could be accomplished by idle computers. We just need to learn how to best accomplish it...and what problems might be solved with this tool.
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