I'm not sure how many visitors realise that the community has a Grid Computing team, it has been positioned on the home page here on Factor for years.
The Team or 'Group' as they prefer to call it is quite old now, setup in 1999 by me as it happens, it eventually became the ce320 SETI group, then TT-Forums joined in
(TTF was co-founded by a community member
), then Handheld Addict and Clinton Fitch
(dot
) Com!.
The membership fluctuates all of the time. Currently there are 61 members with over 54,500 submitted results in the
SETI@Home classic team:
http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_58786.html
We also have a
BOINC team (SETI v4 if you will
) which also allows you to run other Grid projects such a
searching for cures for diseases, or help to find more accurate ways to detect and prevent
climate change using the same client:
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=31634
It's a bit of fun, for a good cause
(no matter what grid project
(s
) you are running
) and something to talk about.
I strongly encourage rivalry and people to show off because they have higher spec systems than each other.
In order to keep rivalry at a maximum
, we encourage you to create an account for each PC you use, rather than posting multiple PCs into one account.
More info on the SETI project and instructions on installing the faster SETI 3 client can be found
here.
