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December 12th, 2001, 03:34 AM
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Re: SETI@HOME Easter Egg!
Man, what sort of computer are you running?? I've been with SETI@Home since June of 1999, and have only done 1000!
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December 12th, 2001, 08:32 AM
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Re: SETI@HOME Easter Egg!
Cool! I'll have to try that. I started with SETI@Home Last year and I'm at 3364 work units now.  |
December 12th, 2001, 05:42 PM
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Re: SETI@HOME Easter Egg!
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Originally posted by MikeRMcCartney:
Man, what sort of computer are you running?? I've been with SETI@Home since June of 1999, and have only done 1000!
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. |
December 12th, 2001, 06:27 PM
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Re: SETI@HOME Easter Egg!
Ok, I give...what's SETI ? Other than Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, that is....
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December 12th, 2001, 07:12 PM
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Re: SETI@HOME Easter Egg!
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Ok, I give...what's SETI ? Other than Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, that is....
That's what it is. SETI@HOME is a project to get people to use their spare computer time to analyze data for the SETI project. Go to http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ to learn more. |
December 13th, 2001, 05:08 AM
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Re: SETI@HOME Easter Egg!
I think the whole idea is fantastic, and that people will show such a great interest is truly outstanding. I never thought about running more than 1 computer for the project, but now I may have to go to the scape pile to build a couple of machines just for SETI.
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December 13th, 2001, 07:10 AM
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Re: SETI@HOME Easter Egg!
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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...
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