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Subject: Re: SETI
From: bc bruce@.......
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 19:54:46 -0500



Try this one

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

At 04:43 PM 11/11/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>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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