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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
You've made a mistaken assumption. Did he say he was running just ONE computer? 
This 'public project' has inspired some serious hobbyists. There are people running SETI farms in their homes with dozens of computers. He might have a basement 'heating' network of Athlon's or something.
Not quite heating my office, but I have anywhere between 4 - 8 computers running @home overnite depending on various factors, day of the month, report workload, etc. At times I've had dual-processor servers running dedicated processes - it'll use all your horsepower if you let it. Its kinda' fun to participate in a project with unprecidented (spelling?) implications. Something like 3.5 million people donating CPU time for something that has an extremely slim chance of finding SETI. If you havent been there before (@home site), go there and check out their CPU stats and stuff - mind boggleing if you're into teraflops and terms like that....
Besides, those computers are on waiting for something to happen most of the time anyways...