No Aliens found unfortunately :(
I suspect a conspiracy. Involving bees and secret Arctic greenhouses...
SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
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Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
#42Seems a bit misleading, they're not distributing more work units, not closing the research center. Nonetheless, this is sad news to me. My entire career path in the tech world was because I got a campus job working for SETI@home.
agreed - I think the title should be updated to call out the "app" shuts down.
Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
#43Did SETI@home accomplish anything useful with its 21 years of computing? Outside of the general "it's always good to do science, even with negative results" which I agree with.
I ran a large cluster of university machines surreptitiously for this project many years ago.
Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
#44I wonder how much $/co2 of power was spent during the lifetime of the project.
Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Duron Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Duron, the poorerer man's Celeron.
the best part is that durons were better than celerons and cheaper for quite some time
The duron had a pencil trick which unlocked it somehow. I don't remember the details.
Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
#46I remember being a younger pup and building fleets of machines (including overclocking, etc) for the sole purpose of running S@H, and all of the amazing software the spun up around it... SetiSpy, SetiDriver, SetiQ. I often wonder how machines of today would compare in work production to my old Duron 800, but alas.
> Duron Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Duron, the poorerer man's Celeron.
Hahah, I can relate so much with the 'poorerer' part, I'll raise you another one: my first '686' was a Cyrix 6x86 because those were the cheapest you could get. Eventually got my hands on a Pentium II and had to scavenge parts to replace my setup.
Good times. Nowadays I just buy a laptop with everything soldered on it and complain a lot if I have to reboot it every month.
Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
#47Ah, good memories of being temporarily banned in the EE labs at UT Austin for running set@home on a bunch of the unix boxes. Must have been around 2000.
Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Celeron 300A, the relative poorer man's Pentium
Weren't they also supported by the Abit BP6 motherboard, letting you use two of them as poorer man's Xeons?
Yes, I owned two of those - alas they ended up being the period of bad capacitors but for the money - wow. Was amazing and for many, one of the only dual cpu systems they ever owned as a home user - even to this day unless you buy a cheap second hand workstations/server platform of ebay or the like.
Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't Folding@Home trying to run an asymmetrical computation, though? The broad strokes as I understand them are that you have a sequence of amines, you arrange them into a three-dimensional protein (the hard part) by whatever method, and then you evaluate the energy bound within your structure (the easier part?). Lower energy is better. The obvious problem is that there's no judgment of "correct" or "incorrect". Ana…
RE: folding@home, How much money will the medical cartel make off of the fruits of all that free labor? Do users even know what they're folding? How do users know that they're not building bioweapons?
For the most part this is fundamental research of the type that is typically funded from public grants, these are not pharma companies... As for what they are contributing too, it's all pretty well documented.
Re: SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
#50Ah, good memories of being temporarily banned in the EE labs at UT Austin for running set@home on a bunch of the unix boxes. Must have been around 2000.
sysadmins hate you.
Surprised you didn’t just use TACC credits for UT students.