Posted on 02/23/2005 6:31:04 PM PST by tang-soo
[A $595 RadioShack computer is more power than anything we had seven years ago]
And if you use a different brand, it's even more powerful than that!
:^)
hrmn.
Ride the wave?
So...the number .000 000 000 000 000 000 is a whole lot less than .000 000 000 0, eh?
Shouldn't let fashion reporters write tech articles.
This is really cool, I also heard about one a few years ago where scientists were going to do this exact thing but with cancer research. Anyone know is that is going on yet? If so, could you provide a link?
Yeah, RIGHT! These geeks are just trying to get into Guiness as the biggest Half Life 2 LAN party ever!
;-)
No need for this really. I fell down the other day. Them old gravity waves took over when I lost my balance on the ladder. Einstein rules! He's da' man.
A distributed processing system of 500,000 units @ 150 megaflops each (conservative estimate)...
In his book The Enchanted Loom (1983) astrophysicist Robert Jastrow speculated that the free exchange of information in a structured way by about 100 billion nodes or switches would simulate what we know, through the human brain, as consciousness. He suggested that distributed computing might be a step in this direction.
It all depends on where you place the one, does it not?
Unless it`s run by Microsoft XP in which case 99.9999999% of its time will be spent downloading updates from the internet.
"Hey Mom, what`s one plus one?"
"Use the computer honey"
"I did last week and it still has the spinning hourglass on it"
Ah, but there IS no "1" in this description. That was my point.
Go to the site grid.org and you can become part of this project.
I have been doing this for about 2 years, for a total of 111 days of CPU time (I only have my computer on 2 to 4 hours a day). You don't notice any difference in the performance of the machine.
Unless you use a hyperthreaded box, the software can't tell it's nopt two processors.
Don't buy this bullsh*t, man! This is just another plot by Karl Rove and BushCo. to look at your porn stash and gather evidence for the upcoming show trials of Amerikan dissidents!
Not to mention what unit you use. Inches? Meters? Liters? Hertz? Joules? None is mentioned; the other poster is right about fashion reporters writing tech articles. If the unit involved is light years, we're talking about some pretty decent-sized waves; that is unless the number really is nothing but a variable number of zeroes after a "pointless" decimal point. I guess zero light years is no larger a measurement than zero millimeters (or zero kilograms, for that matter).
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Author: Albert Einstein
Pretty cool, huh?
I had folding@home and SETI@home running on my Linux Beowulf cluster for a while until I shut it down. I couldn't deal with the $150 per month power bills. That didn't have anything to do with SETI or folding, it had to do with eight Pentium-II and Pentium-III class machines running 24/7. I had a little over one year of CPU time on SETI and I had finished 35 work units on folding. I may have to fire up the cluster again and run some Einstein@home for a while.
wow. I wonder if the answer could aid space travel??
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