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... > >_____________________________________________________________________ > >Public Seismic Network Mailing List (PSN-L) > >To leave this list email listserver@.............. with the body of the >message: leave PSN-L > > _____________________________________________________________________ Public Seismic Network Mailing List (PSN-L)
Larry Cochrane <cochrane@..............>