On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 05:48:52 -0500, Steve Harris wrote:
>Yes the article does go into great detail re Beowulf clusters, but the
>penultimate paragraph contains:
>
>"An equally important trend is the development of networks of PCs that
>contribute their processing power to a collective task. An example is
>SETI@home, ..."
>
>As usual, we get ignored while SETI gets all the publicity.
I agree that this is unfair, especially given that SETI is probably
the only project to have more than ten thousand users and NO results
(putting aside projects like some of the commercial ones that have
been running a relatively short time).
I think the reason SETI attracts so much of the public attention is
simply that anyone can imagine the significance of playing a role in
discovering aliens, while the cash prizes for GIMPS (while larger than
those for distributed.net) aren't something that really attracts
people's attention at first glance.
Nathan
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