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| Personal background |
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I Love overtonesinging and programming. I am 44 year old former C++ developer(clean coder) with passion for development of GPGPU apps in CUDA C and OpenCL.
Now I am an IT supp.&maint. worker (& a PC Technician).
I also love science, especially Space Research. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I run SETi from the classic-app times, because I *love* efficiency and hate wasting idle CPU cycles.
Just imagine hundreds of milions PCs which are becomming *obsolete* every second as You read this... while all of them are (ANYWAYS) connected to network, maintained(SW), *repaired*, eventually upgraded, cleaned from dust etc... and powered by electricity - for personal use.
Well, this all happens ANYWAY / REGARDLESS of what happens with unused/empty CPU cycles. The difference between CPU LOAD 5% to 10% and CPU load 100% is usually VERY small like 35 Watts (except some EXTREME EDITION *desktop* CPUs).
So, if my gaming PC goes through all this trouble (and overkill cooling) anyways and it will be *obsolete* (SLOW and POWERHUNGRY) in 4 years *ANYWAY*(and I will just have to buy a new one anyway), why not to put those idle CPU cycles to some good use in science - while the PC lives its productive age now.
And that's why I donate those idle cycles of my PCs to science. I hate throwing them away. |
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