[penguicon-general] Anyone got spare processor time?

[Tracy Worcester]

I've just formed a team for PenguiCon with the SETI at Home project over at
setiathome.berkeley.edu.  I'm an old Seti at home user who fell out of the
haibt, but just checked back in.  The graphics these days are *much* cooler
than they were six years ago.

Not familiar with SETI at home?  As I understand it, the software involved in
an open source product which allows complex computing jobs to be broken down
into subtasks and farmed out to thousands of individual computers, which
only run those computations when the host's system is on, but otherwise
idle.  To quote the people over at Berkeley:  "Use the idle time on your
computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming,
discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research."  If you
want more description of the SETI at home project, they can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seti%40home

SETI stands for "search for extraterrestrial intelligence".  I personally
chose to give my processor time to the SETI project because Carl Sagan has
warped my mind.  Feel free to mock me, if you must.  (:

So, if you've got processor time you're not using and think it would be cool
to analyze the radio impulses that hit Earth to see if anyone "out there" is
trying to get in touch, feel free to:

1.  Go to the BOINC site and download the distributed computing software (
boinc.berkeley.edu).
2.  Sign up for the SETI at home project
3.  Search under the "find teams" option for PenguiCon, and come join me.




Tracy Worcester
Chair, PCon 1.0
PCon Co-Founder
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