A new major SETI project based on Project Serendip data and 100,000 personal computers. W. T. Sullivan, III, D. Werthimer, S. Bowyer, J.Cobb, D. Gedye, D. Anderson. Published in: "Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe", Proc. of the Fifth Intl. Conf. on Bioastronomy. 1997  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....can imagine buying literally thousands of PCs, and interconnecting them using standard connectivity methods. One good example of such a large scale computer is 2 The performance benchmark used is Linpack, in the conditions settled by http: www.top500.org 2 exploited in the SETI Home project [3], which interconnects hundreds of thousands of machines over the Internet, raising a cumulated performance of several Teraflop s. For supercomputers, a common way to measure performance is to use the Linpack benchmark as described by the TOP500 consortium. Linpack stresses the system through ....

A new major SETI project based on Project Serendip data and 100,000 personal computers. W. T. Sullivan, III, D. Werthimer, S. Bowyer, J.Cobb, D. Gedye, D. Anderson. Published in: "Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe", Proc. of the Fifth Intl. Conf. on Bioastronomy. 1997

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