Anyone for an Amiga.Org SETI@Home group?

[Dalamar]

I'm just curious how many would be interested in joining a SETI stats group.

[iamaboringperson]

Excuse my ignorance, but what is 'SETI' ?

:-)

[blobrana]

@iamaboringperson
SETI (pronounced set-tee) is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

There is unfortunatly no amiga version (yet), so you`ll have to use another brand...

I`m already  with `boing` but i may change over if there are loads going to join from here...




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[GreggBz]

Sign Me Up Scotty.
My Seti

[Speelgoedmannetje]

It is finding a needle in a hay storage (without metal detector).
Look at the amount of species here on earth, for instance.
But then again, look at the amount of planets around the gazillions of stars

[Cyberus]

Yeah, why not? I used to do this on my uni computer as it was on 24/7, but that was a while ago. Why not, this computer I'm using now's on most of the day (and night!). Was tempted to do one of the cancer ones...oh well

[Dalamar]

Well if there is no objection from "management" ;-) I'll create one.

[blobrana]

Go on, i dare you...













[did you `pmail` someone (wayne?) who know what they`re doing?]

[Dalamar]

[did you `pmail` someone (wayne?) who know what they`re doing?]

I did, but I imagine they are all quite busy making the site go.

[cecilia]

i've actually thought about this for a long time. I love doing space-related things.
I just need to have a computer on alot, and that one has to be on the web all the time, And it still has to be useful doing other stuff.

and that's not the case at the moment.

but, maybe someday.

[blobrana]

Hum,
reading that has made me realise that some ppl may think that you need to be connected permanently to do seti work...you just need to download a 340 k `unit` , and can disconnect after that, only reconnecting to download another unit...
And it only takes up SPARE CPU cycles, so you could be doing work at the same time...OR...You could just run it as a screen-saver, only doing it`s job while in screen-saver mode...

[shIva]

due to no amiga os / morphos client, starting a team with the name amiga.org is imho not that good.
think about joining the distributed.net AO team. theres a client availible for each os AND you can be sure to find something, what is nearly unpossible with seti :-)

[blobrana]

Hum,
a difficult choise that...

But the fact that you couldn't`t find any aliens and change the course of human society forever , swayed me in favour of SETI...

[Dalamar]

Heh. Join both.

Since there have been no objections I'll create the group today sometime.

[Cyberus]

blobrana wrote:
Hum,
reading that has made me realise that some ppl may think that you need to be connected permanently to do seti work...you just need to download a 340 k `unit` , and can disconnect after that, only reconnecting to download another unit...
And it only takes up SPARE CPU cycles, so you could be doing work at the same time...OR...You could just run it as a screen-saver, only doing it`s job while in screen-saver mode...

True, but it is still more worthwhile for users whose computers are on most of the time, since there will be long periods when the processor is idle, such as when the user is asleep :-) I would leave my computer at uni on over christmas, for example, and all that time it was doing SETI, permanently connected to the internet so it could carry on downloading units.