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Hello, my name is Curran, and I am currently a 23-year-old graduate student of physics at Cornell University conducting research in numerical relativity. I previously attended the University of Maryland, College Park, triple-majoring in physics, mathematics, and astronomy on a full scholarship. When not studying, I enjoy cycling, board games, and working on my computer. I am especially fond of the Java programming language and the GNU/Linux operating system. My old SETI desktop was built around an AMD Athlon64 3500+ running 64-bit Gentoo Linux. My current system features an Intel Core i7 920 and an nVidia GeForce GTX 260, also running 64-bit Gentoo Linux.
In addition to science, I am also quite interested in history, languages, and paleontology. Furthermore, I am still strongly attached to my high school, where I cannot be torn away from our math team, science bowl team, quiz bowl team, and especially our school company, SAFEH2O. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I run SETI@home for two reasons. First, I cannot stand the thought of so much computing power all around the world being wasted checking e-mail and sitting idle the rest of the day. Computers were made to compute for years on end, and SETI lets them do just that. Second, I have been in love with the cosmos since I was a child, and I am eager to do anything to help learn more about them.
My biggest suggestion at the moment would be to support a wider variety of platforms. Previously, I would have liked to see an optimized, official AMD64 Linux client, perhaps even linked against ACML. Presently, I would like to see up-to-date 64-bit Linux clients with CUDA support. The lag in Linux support by SETI@home, despite superior performance potential and a cleaner programming environment, is rather disappointing. |
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