🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, walter@lamar.colostate.edu wrote:
>Michael A. Schulman <mschulman@ms-computing.com> wrote:
>: I have been checking the CSU Rams seti at home group all summer.
>
>: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_14097.html
>
>: At first Brian J Walter was 50 Work units ahead of me, now he is 300.
>: How do you do it?
[...some snippage...]
>And for the real geeks among us check out
>http://www.krasnoconv.com/index.html
>
>They are a Ukranian company that takes military surplus junk and makes
>civilian junk out of it.  This is a PCI board that takes up to 6
>processors, each capable of independently crunching a SETI@home workunit.
>The board runs some trimmed down version of Linux onboard and crunches
>workunits using the original software from Berkeley.  The processors are
>from the guidance system of old (presumably) cruise missles.  Cool, eh?
>
>I signed up to be a beta tester, but rumor on Usenet is that they cannot
>fulfill their sales demands so they likely aren't giving away free boards
>to freeloaders, er, I mean beta-testers.
>
But the most likely story is that the krasnoconv stuff is a hoax.
Sorry!  See technocrat.net for details.

Martin Gelfand
Associate Prof, Dept of Physics