Supporting SETI@Home and all BOINC Distributed
Computing
Projects
January
2007
ŠSETI.USA
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New Years
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* Latest
News
* SETI News * Member
of the Month Interview
An Interview with SETI.USA’s BlkJack-21 * Topic
of the Month
ABC@Home * Computer
of the Month * Member’s
Pick of the Month
Tweakhound.com * Team
Stats * Personal
Milestones * Quote
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Latest News |
Intel plans 65-nanometer plant in
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SETI
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Month Of The Berks!! - SargeD It seems that January has so far
been the “Month of the Berks”!!
Almost seems like there has been one right after the other. Apparently the issue is with the assimilators
which keep dropping offline. Just want
to remind our members that when this happens it is usually best to suspend
your network activity. There appears
to be a rash of invalidated WUs for the first
little while after they come back online.
Suspending network activity until the assimilators have been back up
for a while seems to prevent these invalid WUs from
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Member
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Welcome to
SETI.USA newsletter January 2007. We have passed both Christmas and New-year
- and are now headed towards our anniversary.
In many ways 2007 looks to be a year to remember: Our team turns 2
years - we will overtake S.G, and the list could continue... |
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Topic
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Newest BOINC Project is ABC@Home!! What
is ABC@home?
ABC@home is a distributed computing project enabling a great search for so called abc-triples. The project is comparable in a way to GIMPS, another mathematical project. These abc-triples are positive integers a,b,c such that a+b=c, a < b < c, a,b,c have no common divisors and c > rad(abc), the so-called radical of abc. The ABC conjecture says that there are only finitely many a,b,c such that log(c)/log(rad(abc)) > h for any real h > 1. The ABC conjecture is currently one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. If it is proven to be true, a lot of other open problems can be answered directly from it. More information can be found here . Who is involved?
The Mathematical Institute of Leiden University together with Kennislink, a dutch institute to promote science. The science group that constructed a new algorithm to find these abc-triples consists of prof. HW. Lenstra jr, dr. B. de Smit, drs. WJ. Palenstijn. Lenstra and de Smit previously worked on completing a lithograph of Escher. ABC@home is completely non-profit and only for educational
purposes. The project will start in January, however you can join ABC@home beta and find those triples today! You will once
the project starts automatically be a part of ABC@home.
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Computer
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This month, jghilino has sent
us the following information from While not
specifically a dedicated cruncher, it shares cycles as it's also my main
gaming rig... Specs Intel Core
2 Duo e6300 @ 1.86GHz (No overclock)
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Member’s
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TweakHound.Com By SargeD |
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Team
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Our dear friend and team mate,
Daniel Schaalma, usually writes this article. As most of you may know he has had a run of
bad luck with his father being sick and now that his father has improved, he
himself is down with an illness.
Please let your thoughts and prayers be with
Daniel as he tries to overcome these little setbacks in his real life. With that said, I am not sure if I can do
the outstanding job Daniel has done in the past, but I will try to give you
some of the latest stats news. We should break the 200,000,000
CS mark in SETI sometime tonight (Saturday 13 January). That is important to the team because it
will be the last huge milestone that we will NOT be first to reach!! We will be passing SETI.Germany
in the very near future and there is no doubt that we will
be the first to reach the 300,000,000 CS mark. We are also about to pass the Czech
National Team in total BOINC and move into the #3 spot there. We currently
need a little over 22,000,000 and should get there in around 46 days. Nice thing about this stomp is it will be a
one, two punch! Once we pass the
Czechs, we will only be a couple of million behind L'Alliance Francophone. Crunch on all! We will accomplish something AMAZING!! - SargeD |
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Personal
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SETI.USA
would like to thank ALL of it's dedicated members
and offer CONGRATULATIONS to all those who achieved significant personal
milestones in the month of December. As you all know, we are growing
exponentially. We now have:
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Quote
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As we enter
a new year and the SETI project enters it's 9th, the
newsletter would like to remind all of it's dedicated crunchers that we are
making significant progress. - Orion |
