I was wondering how long it would take for this to show up on HP3000-L (I was
planning to post it myself later this week).

Wirt Atmar writes:
>
> As I say in the subject line, what follows is wildly off-topic.
> Unfortunately, it's also interesting :-).
>
> Yesterday (May 17), UC Berkeley officially inaugurated a SETI (search for
> exterrestrial intelligence) program that requests your help -- or more
> accurately, your PCs'. They're looking to engage 250,000 to 400,000 PCs,
> Macs, and UNIX/Linux boxes to become one extremely large, world-wide
> supercomputer, all woven together through the internet.

Totals as of 1645 PDT: ~165000 users have spent ~155 YEARS of CPU time on data
analysis.

> The way it works is that you download and install a client for your
> PC/Mac/Linux machine.

Last week there was a v0.46 client for HPUX, but that seems to have disappeared
now and there is no new HPUX client yet.

I volunteered to port the client to MPE, but I haven't received any response
from them.  They probably have a rather large inbox backlog given that ~165K
users are participating.....

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