 Supporting SETI@Home and all BOINC Distributed Computing Projects May 2007 |
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CONTENTS: * Latest News |
Penryn is coming!! You knew it had to be coming. A year ago Intel previewed its first Core 2 processors ahead of their release, and with Penryn due out before the end of the year the boys in blue are back again. |
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Home Alone? The Search Continues The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence or SETI may seem like the pursuit of the proverbial 'needle in a haystack' to some, while it conjures up for others 'little green men' and scenes from the movie Contact . Adherents argue that SETI is in fact a "specialised sub-discipline" of the field of radio astronomy, which has developed from the pioneering efforts of a group of scientists in the 1960's to find evidence of artificially generated signals from space. NASA in fact maintained a SETI program based at the NASA Ames Research Center for a year, before the U.S. Congress abolished funding in 1993. Since NASA vacated the field of SETI, the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence has largely been in the hands of the private sector. However, Executive Director of the SETI League, Dr. H. Paul Shuch, says there is much that a small-scale grassroots organisation can achieve in this arena. The SETI League was founded in 1994 by its current President, Richard C. Factor, and from humble beginnings has become the world's major privatised SETI observational program. The question 'Are we alone?' is a compelling one. Whether you reject such a possibility out of hand or maintain an open mind, you have to admire the tenacity of those involved in grass-roots SETI research. What keeps them going is probably the satisfaction of playing a part in the search to answer a question which has dogged man for centuries. As Dr. H. Paul Shuch puts it, "It's a gamble with long odds, but low costs and high potential payoff - rather like playing the ultimate cosmic lottery." |
Member of the Month Interview: -Beerdrinker Today we interview a member, who we could call the "stats-master" - "recruit-master" or even the "avatar-master". Because he does it all. He is always willling to help, when needed. So it gives me great pleasure to introduce...... |
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SETI.USA encourages its members to participate in the project of their choice. Now that we have accomplished the team's original goal of being #1 in SETI@home, credit in ALL BOINC projects is valuable to the team's future success. |
First, I would like to say that "Crunch what you want" will always be an option on this team. As all of you know, our current primary goal is to take the number 1 position in BOINC overall. In order to do this we must put maximum points on the board in any project we crunch. It helps when we can concentrate on projects that give the most points, but that is not always going to happen. As a secondary goal, we are also trying to move up in position in as many projects as we can. That is partly the reason we have started the "Project of the Month" and the "Weekend Crunch-a-thons". So, with all of that in mind, here are some statistics to give you an idea of where we stand:
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Trivia Contest April Results: -SargeD
Hopefully we will see more members in next month's issue!!!! |
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This month we are featuring a computer belonging to BlkJack-21. SPECS:
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Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. |
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Personal SETI Milestones: -Orion 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 April. As you all know, we are growing exponentially. We now have: Orion has also been compiling the join date statistics for our SETI teammates (thanks Orion)! We have found that there are 90 of our top 400 members who are #1 in their join date class. Congratulations to those who have reached this milestone!! |
Congratulations to all of those who helped with the Project of the Month in April! We were somewhere above 120th place in WCG when we started the PoTM. We are now in 87th place. That is an awesome job of crunching, but we expect nothing less from this fine team! Hopefully we will see just as big a turnout for the PoTM this month!! |
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