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| Ragnarok |
Well, most of you probably heard about it, or even have it installed.
But I'll introduce it anyway! :cool:
Seti@Home is a program in which you can help SETI (Nasa's Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) from your very own computer at home/school/work!
Here's a little explanation:
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[Seti@Home readme file.]
SETI@home actually consists of two parts: an "application"
and a "screensaver". The application does all the work: it
downloads blocks of data through the Internet, performs the
number crunching on that data (looking for orderly patterns
that might be artificial), returns the results, and gets
another block of data. The application is represented by a
green radio telescope icon in the System Tray (normally at
the lower right of your screen). You can open the applica-
tion window by double-clicking on this icon, or right-clicking
on the icon and selecting Maximize from the popup menu..
The screensaver program runs when you haven't used your key-
board or mouse for a while. It displays color pictures
showing the data analysis process. Normally the application
processes data only when the screensaver is running.
Optionally, you can have the application process data all
the time.
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Sounds cool enough?
Get it at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
Who knows? You might pick up a trance from outer space! ;) |
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| YELLOWBEE |
wow, that sounds very cool actually, im gonna check that out.
Thanks, never heard of that
:)
Cyaaaaa
Ybee |
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| NucleuzBoy |
yeah I ['ve heard of that, But i was wondering, cant that send viruses to your computer or soemthing?
Do you know anything about it??
I think it is cool though |
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| Ragnarok |
A virus?
From Berkely University of California?
I doubt it... |
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| djSlain |
SETI@Home is a waste of time. it takes like 18 hours to analyze ONE GODDAMN PIECE of information.
Folding@home all the way. http://folding.stanford.edu
edit: and you can analyze data WHILE you are working on the comp, with no slowdown to what ever you are running. aliens when u can find cures for CANCER yay!
and teams! teams damnit! anyone want to make a TranceAddict team? I'd be glad to switch teams if TA wants to make one |
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| lMIlk |
| make a team for what? :conf: :D |
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| djSlain |
i'm all for making a TranceAddict team for Folding@Home. I'm already on this team
http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=150 (i'm ErickWithaCK)
if u TAs want to create a team to save the world, i'd be glad to switch over.
"but DJSlain, that's boring..."
you are obviously very virgin and very cool. only nerdy geeks like me are into Distributed Computing. it's actually quite fun and competitive. I'm sure if we could get @ least 100 of the 5000 TAs folding, we could be in the top, hmmm, 15 in no time |
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| hypronix |
I've heard of SETI@home about 2 years ago I think, but as I have been on dial-up internet I don't believe it is worth it... whenever I will switch to something fast (includin a new comp) I will get one of these apps... whatever I can do to save the world.
as for viruses, more likely U should worry of hackers. bc if someone gets access into the Berkeley server, it gets access in all those SETI running comps... also, for whoever watched SF movies, think that data can be a way in which intelligent existance forms can be materialized.
hell, if we R to die... |
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| AnotherWay83 |
i knew of that over a year or so ago...but if u think about it, its completely stupid..
if aliens wanted to, they would've made contact with us way back...they wouldn't need our radio technology anyway...
peace |
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| djSlain |
I wanna know how many of you TAs plan on Folding. maybe make a seperate thread, but i'm so scared! ahhh, new thread! social anxiety! ah!!!!
anyways here is the TA team page:
http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=351
(team number 351)
i'm not going to start folding for that team until we can get at least, say 25 members on it. and no, u don't need cable internet. it processes everything on the CPU, it only needs internet at the very end and beginning of each project to:
send the folded protein
get a new protein |
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| lMIlk |
| ok gimem sign up details. I still dont' get the point of it but ok. |
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