Hi all

tchapm · Post by **tchapm** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:05 pm

Hi to everyone.

I've been number crunching for a while with Rosetta and SETI on my own but thought I'd join a UK Team!

Thanks for havin me.

Timby · Post by **Timby** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:10 pm

and

tchapm to the best team in the UK.
Good to see you on the forum, loads of people around most nights and don't forget to check the Chat room.
Hope you enjoy the stay with the team.

Mark

UBT - The Prof.... · Post by **UBT - The Prof....** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:23 pm

Greetings, and welcome.

If you have any problems feel free to ask as one of us will know the answer or point you in the direction of someone who will

Post by **UBT-mark3346** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:06 pm

Welcome to the team :hello2:

Temujin · Post by **Temujin** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:28 pm

Welcome aboard tchapm

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:58 am

Hello tchapm & welcome to UK BOINC Team

sigma-7 · Post by **sigma-7** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:22 am

Greetz and welcome to the team

tchapm · Post by **tchapm** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:05 am

Thanks all!

So what kind of systems are you running this on?

You seem to either be using some kind of mainframe or you've been doing this a while!

Are they home or work systems?

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:22 am

tchapm wrote:Thanks all!

So what kind of systems are you running this on?

You seem to either be using some kind of mainframe or you've been doing this a while!

Are they home or work systems?

Welcome to the Team !!

Mostly, people have PCs at home, but some also have work machines available (and assuming the employer allows this !).

As for what type of PCs - they are mostly off the shelf generic PCs - I don't think any one has a "mainframe" available - as much as we'd love a Cray or BlueGene/L....

So, what you see is an accumulation of credit, built up over a number of years by a large number of members, who generally speaking, tend to stay with our Team.... 8)

And now you've joined us as well....it only gets betterer and betterer...!

regards,

Tim

Temujin · Post by **Temujin** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 6:46 pm

tchapm wrote:So what kind of systems are you running this on?
You seem to either be using some kind of mainframe or you've been doing this a while!
Are they home or work systems?

No mainframes for me

I've just been doing it for a loooong time with as many computers at home/work I can get me hands on

melter65 · Post by **melter65** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:27 pm

Hello and Welcome!

Hope you didn't get your feet too wet during the recent flooding!

tchapm · Post by **tchapm** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:56 pm

Well no not this time!

I escaped as I was working from home that day. The water did get (literally) to the front door of the Data Centre where I usually work, which could have been disasterous for our business. Luckily the geography of the land means that the building are about 5 feet higher up than the road. Although the road was under 4 foot of water (did you see the picture with the tractor outside Dixon ford? I literally work on the opposite side of the road and a couple of buildings down from there) it didn't breach the building.

It did mean my colleagues all had to stay indoors through the night!

Working from home - its the future!

Something I was going to ask everyone - have any of you actually discovered anything by using these programs? I mean, have SETI or anyone else contacted you to say "Hey! You found an alien!" (or words to that effect!)? (I'm sure I would have heard if we HAD found an alien... !)

Post by **UBT - Timbo** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:46 pm

tchapm wrote:......
Something I was going to ask everyone - have any of you actually discovered anything by using these programs? I mean, have SETI or anyone else contacted you to say "Hey! You found an alien!" (or words to that effect!)? (I'm sure I would have heard if we HAD found an alien... !)

I got an email from Alpha Centauri about three years ago.......but it was spam and not meant for me in the first place

Seriously, though...

SETI has yet to find an alien or any other "intelligent" signals coming from the heavens....

But given they are looking at a very specific part of radio frequencies, over a small area of the sky and that they have to "share" resources at Arecibo (where the telescope is), so it's not likely that a "Eureka" moment is ever going to happen soon.

However, they a new multi-beam receiver coming online soon (if not already) and so they'll have more data for us to all look at.

On the other hand, some of the other BOINC projects have started reaching conclusions....the CPDN projects have started announcing some results, the LHC project has designed and are now building at CERN, as a result of work done, and some of the medical projects (Rosetta, WCG) are seeing progress.

So, it's overall "good news" generally, but the (probably) biggest news has still yet to surface.

regards

Tim