Wirt writes

>For those of you who are participating in the SETI HP3000-L, I don't know
if
>you've noticed it or not, but "Neil Harvey & Associates" has been coming up
>the rankings like a rocket. I estimate that NHA must have the equivalent of
>20 to 25 PCs on the job. They're turning out at least 20 work units a day.


It was Fred who got us onto [log in to unmask] Some of our PC's (All late model
Vectra VL8's) run it full-time, and not just as a screen saver. My own one
does this - it is a VL8/400 with 128MB running Windows 2000 Professional
(Release candidate 2).

Since we still develop Legacy systems (aka Systems That Work ;)) in a thin
client environment, I guess our over-specified PC's have time to search for
intelligence elsewhere than in the NHA office ;)

I don't notice any impact at all during my normal working day, so I guess my
system is happy. The Task manager shown 100% CPU utilization, but it seems
that Windows 2000 co-operates with itself better than NT4 ever did.

We keep hoping to see the "Face" on Mars appear in the SETI Power/Frequency
topology graph....or maybe the ET's will take pity on us Earthlings and
reveal themselves in a more conventional manner.

It is a fascinating concept, this SETI thing, having the potential to
develop into the world's largest Massively Parallel Computer, if it isn't
there already, and a forerunner of things to come, no doubt.

Wirt has already proved that networks and internetworks are no longer an
insurmountable obstacle to long-distance Apps on Tap computing, and SETI at
last gives us a valid use for the huge amount of power that has stealthily
crept onto our desktops...

See you at the rendezvous.

Regards

Neil