On Sun, 06 Jun 1999 11:31:42 -0700, Spike Jones wrote:
>I suspected that existence of SETI@Home would somehow benefit
>GIMPS in the long run, and now I see how it might happen: SETI@Home
>is a dog compared to GIMPS. It doesnt get outta your way when
>you want your computer's undivided attention, and now it appears
>they have been handing out the same assignment over and over
>[...]
... which however is their official policy as you can read at
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/faq.html#q3.11:
[...]
3.11. Is it likely that so many people sign up that you won't
always have enough Arecibo data to feed all the clients? If so,
how will this be handled?
It's possible. Up to a point, we will handle it by sending the
same data to more than one user. Beyond that, if we can afford
it, we will set up another data recorder at Arecibo and record
a wider frequency range (our current system records only 2.5
MHz out of SERENDIP's 100 MHz bandwidth).
[...]
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