🚀 go-pugleaf

Martin Gelfand <gelfand@lamar.colostate.edu> wrote:
: 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.

I'd like to say I was just egging everyone on, but ...  Gee and I call
myself a scientist too.  I should have caught that one.  But the computer
scientist in my just started thinking of how you do something like that
rather than looking at all their details ...

--bjw (Feeling dumb today)
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