Search for Aliens
A conversation with Milt in the Hole in the Ground recently made me download and install the latest version of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) screen saver to see how quickly my latest computer could crunch a block of their data.
Whilst poking around the SETI site I realized I originally signed up with SETI in May 1999 - five and a half years ago. Since then the distributed computer network has provided over two million years of computer time. Impressive stuff.
By the way, It seems can process a block of data in about 2.75 hours on a Mac G5 2.5Ghz whilst working on the machine during the day, and after leaving it running overnight when I'm not, usually, working a block gets returned in just under 2 hours. I don't know how this compares to other computers because SETI don't seem to produce the statistics that show that - I think they used to.
I guess were looking for ET not trying the benchmark the performance of our computers.
Whilst poking around the SETI site I realized I originally signed up with SETI in May 1999 - five and a half years ago. Since then the distributed computer network has provided over two million years of computer time. Impressive stuff.
By the way, It seems can process a block of data in about 2.75 hours on a Mac G5 2.5Ghz whilst working on the machine during the day, and after leaving it running overnight when I'm not, usually, working a block gets returned in just under 2 hours. I don't know how this compares to other computers because SETI don't seem to produce the statistics that show that - I think they used to.
I guess were looking for ET not trying the benchmark the performance of our computers.
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