Monthly Archives: June 2008

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Aquaria Animalia

I got this funny email from Kathryn today:

I forgot to tell you about the weird dream I had last night – dreamt I was fishing at work (don’t ask) and caught several fish – they were “catfish” in the water, and then they turned to plain cats in the water. And then there was a large horse in the water, and other weird water creatures, and I caught and threw back several of those. For some reason I was here overnight, fishing with a lot of other staff.

I think it’s a sign of the apocalypse or something. Fishing for cats isn’t right.

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ALIENS!

Your computer might find them. I’ve had Seti@Home running in the BOINC distributed computing platform for a while now. My Mac Pro eight-core beast has been chewing through radio telescope data for a while now, and I recently came across a nifty website-badge that shows my progress:



Wow, I’m up to 84,155th place!! To give you an idea of how far away from 1st place I am, my “credit” score, which indicates how much computing time I’ve contributed, is currently 60,669. The top contributor has 458,338,508 credits. As of January 2008, the SETI@home project by itself has amassed 3.4 million years of computing time from its contributors. An incredible achievement!

Be sure to check out this list of BOINC-supported distributed computing projects. There’s some interesting stuff in there. Go sign up and put your lazy CPU to work while you sleep. FOR SCIENCE!

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