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Subject: Re: SETI
From: Roger Griggs rdg8@.........
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:43:31 -0800


The URL is bogus, try again.

At 01:26 PM 11/10/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>As a group of individuals who obviously are used to waiting patiently
>over long periods time for results,  and who also have computers that
>spend most of their "always on" time taking a few samples a second from
>the A/D card and "Flying  through space" on the screen, I thought the PSN
>members would be  excellent candidates for forming a team for the
>SETI@home project.
>
>This project out of Berkeley uses the wasted capacity of your Pentium 95
>machine (or other platform) by giving you a screen saver program that
>crunches data downloaded via their server from the Arecibo Radio
>Observatory in PR. It crunches blocks of data about 300K in size and uses
>16M of RAM while running. The CPU time required to process each block can
>be anywhere between hours and weeks depending upon your hardware, and the
>chance that you actually will get a block that proves to have the tiny CQ
>from ET is certainly several orders of magnitude lower than recording an
>M9 before the end of your life, or even that of keeping your Lehman
>centered for more than a month, so I think it would be the perfect
>challenge for most of us. The rewards from hopeless endeavors may never
>be explained...
>
>Anyway, go to: http://setiahome.ssl.berkeley.edu and download the
>software. There is plenty of help and project description on line.
>
>Larry could form a group (fill out an on-line form) for PSN and they even
>have free graphic links to drop on the PSN home page(s). Then PSN users
>could compete as a team with others such as the seti@SUN team that has
>processed almost a quarter million blocks with something like 190 YEARS
>of CPU time accumulated so far...
>
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