You are missing the point, SETI isn't about who can process the most data sets.
Its about who processes the data set containing the extra-terrestrial signal.
That's the real prize!
So, don't be disappointed, the project is going to take some time. The universe
is a REAL BIG place. The SETI@home program also demonstrates the absolute power
of distributed processing using the internet. Imagine 2,000,000 plus machines
of varying OS's, hardware platforms, crunching numbers towards a common goal.
Who needs super-computers?
OM Content => What if all the OM users of the world pointed their cameras, all
properly loaded with film of course, at the sky and took a photograph at the
same moment? What a mosaic that would make! <g>
Imagine everyone else in the world stopping, listening, wondering what made
that beautiful sound. The sound of millions of OM shutters firing in unison.
Charles "Needing to get out of the house" Packard
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Garth Wood wrote:
>
> At 06:41 PM 6/10/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >I hope this isn't an abuse of the list, but I'd like to solicit some
> >CPU cycles for a good cause. I just started Searching for Extra-
> >Terrestrial Intelligence (I've given up on earth...) and have
> >processed 5 datasets so far for the SETI project in the background.
>
> Five? FIVE?
>
> Piker.
>
> So far, I've processed 522, which is more than 97.5810f the users, and I
> consider myself a total failure. There are *individuals* who've processed
> tens of thousands of work units so far, not to mention those corporate LANs
> chugging away. So far, nothing.
>
> But if we do ever find 'em, they'd better be using Olympus equipment to take
> pictures -- otherwise I say they're a boil on the butt of the Universe, and
> we should nuke 'em 'til they glow and then shoot 'em in the dark. 8^>
>
> Garth
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