Posts by Wolfpack

1) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Seti@home's Number 1 Cruncher Fired At Work... (Message 64363) Posted 3 Dec 2009 by Wolfpack Post: <snip> The power demands are fair criticism, but if the machines were running something useful like Rosetta or WCG instead of something totally worthless like Seti maybe the reaction would be very different. Sid: The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a non-commercial middleware system for volunteer and grid computing. It was originally developed to support the SETI@home project before it became useful as a platform for other distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics. I don't think S@H is totally worthless considering that their director David Anderson also runs the BOINC project thus making this endevour (R@H) possible. And you never know - they may make contact one day. Glass half full or half empty? :-)
2) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : AGING (Message 64344) Posted 3 Dec 2009 by Wolfpack Post: Men's genes may limit lifespan.
3) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Seti@home's Number 1 Cruncher Fired At Work... (Message 64343) Posted 3 Dec 2009 by Wolfpack Post: NEZ was the #1 cruncher at Seti@home with over 579,000,000 credits! As MIS Director for a school system he was using almost 5,000 of their computers for Seti@home over the past 9 years; he's been caught and fired: Video News Story Wow! How did he manage to get away with this for so long? Maybe the option of hidden computers should be disallowed. No question about it though - his contribution to S&H was huge...