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| on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 03:48 AM - 730 Reads |
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So, a recent article on the "God Particle " got me thinking about distributed computing again. Discovering how gravity works is going to be a huge advancement for astrophysics. Likely the biggest one since Einstein's general relativity breakthrough advances. I would love to see this advance happen in the near future. Hopefully helping with the computing processing will help.
The above article led me to this article on distributed computing for the LHC, which led me to investigate other distributed computing projects. I've been involved in a number of them over the past six or seven years, but haven't always reinstalled the software when I reformat.
I actually really like this author's reasonings behind his choices for supporting distributed projects.
I've never considered SETI a good idea. On a grand scheme, even if there was life on other planets, the period of time in an advancing civilization that these radio signals are being used is what, perhaps a hundred years or two before they move on to something more advanced? That's practically no time at all. There will be better ways to explore the heavens for possibilities of life in the future, without wasting even my unused processor cycles. I find it sad that this is the most used distributed computing, especially since they pretty much have more computing power than they have data to evaluate at this point.
As for other options, I just don't understand the Einstein project, even after perusing their website. Well, I don't really understand any of the life sciences projects.
Based on this author's analysis, though, (and once I get my computer networks back on line), I plan to donate unused cycles to: Rosetta, LHC and SIMAP, probably in that order. |
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