Hey folks,
The Ars Technica distributed computing group Team
Lamb Chop is looking for people willing to contribute their spare CPU cycles to
the SETI@Home project,
based from the Berkeley campus. At the moment, TLC as a group has possibly
collectively crunched more data than any other single distributed computing
project group on the face of the planet, contributing 7,021 years worth of
computing time to the search for little green men. In total, all 3.6
million S@H members worldwide have crunched
920,477 years worth of data collected from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto
Rico. At the moment we're trying to stave off a
major offensive by SETI.Germany (5,010 years), which is making a concerted push
to bump us from the #1 spot sometime later this year.
If this sounds interesting to you, hop on over to
the TLC site (http://www.teamlambchop.com/) and check it out. There's a link that lets you join in the
menu bar at left, but you'll first have to install the SETI@Home client and register on the official S@H site (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/). The client runs in the
background, doesn't hog your CPU when you're using the machine, and
automatically grabs a new work unit for Berkeley after its done processing and
returning each to Berkeley. It's an ideal thing to run on your machine at night
when you're not around, and it helps out a good scientific cause. Clients are
available for Linux, Windows, Mac, etc. I hope you'll consider putting those
idle cycles to good use. :)
thx
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