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Re: SETI @ Home

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From: Michael Dwyer
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:00
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Michael A. Schulman <mschulman@ms-computing.com> wrote:


: walter@lamar.colostate.edu wrote:

:> : 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 ...
:>

: Well Maybe one day soon I will finally catch up with work units.  The reason I
: am going so fast right now is because one of the servers I maintain is not
: being used over the for anything more then having 4 people save files to it.
: So I have SETI @ Home running on it until Mid August.  Then Ill be back to my
: Home machine which takes 24-26 Hours per work unit.

A friend of mine had a whole bunch of J-class HP workstations just
sitting around the office...  So, he fired them all up, and can get
through a workunit in something like 4 hours!  Our team has broken
the 500 mark in something like 3 days, while my six machines have
only come up with 10 work units...  I take four *times* longer.

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mdwyer@holly.ColoState.edu       http://WWW.CS.ColoState.EDU/~dwyer/
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From: Michael Dwyer <mdwyer@holly.ColoState.EDU>
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Date: 2000/07/25
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