[aclug-L] Re: SETI@Home Prize

[Benjamin Bunck <bbunck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Curtis Hawthorne wrote:

> 
> I read on Slashdot today that SETI@Home is nearing the
> half-billion mark for number of submitted results.  They're
> also giving a $500 reward for the user who returns the
> 500-millionth result.  I went over to the SETI@Home page
> (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu), and over there it
> says:
> 
> ? April 23, 2002 ? 
> The Wichita State University team has offered a $500 prize
> to whoever returns the 500 millionth result!
> 


Most of the $500 is being put up by our group leader, Joe Eck 
(see http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_17371.html)

He told us that he thought the SETI@home folks' original prize for the 
500M unit (a free T-shirt) "just wouldn't cut it".

Anyway, a very generous prize.  WSU is now well among the top 200 
universities worldwide contributing to the SETI@home project.


Ben


> So apparently it even has a local origin.  Normally my
> distributed computing client of choice is distributed.net,
> but for a chance at $500, sure I'll change for week or two
> :-).
>
> Current stats are: 497814690 total results received, 799821
> in the last 24 hours. 
> 
> Curtis H.
> 
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