From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sat May 22 1999 - 17:31:59 MDT
Similiar to distributed.net, seti@home now allows creation of
competing teams http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/team.html ,
a distinctly motivating factor.
Current stats:
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/totals.html
Users
287675
Work units sent
771222
Results received
239930
Total CPU time
8023159 hr 53 min 06.4 sec
( 915.89 years)
Average CPU time
per work unit
33 hr 26 min 22.5 sec
The disparity between work units sent and results received indicates
that the joins have not saturated yet. Somehow, I think the creators
of the project have never anticipated such a resonance ;)
Though it is difficult to imagine a project more motivating to the
public than SETI an ALife project akin to
http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/tierra/netreport/netreport.html
could come close, especially if providing stunning visuals.
As the rollout of xDSL continues, the local density of potential project
participants connected with low-latency ~1 Mbps might become
supercritical for really worthwhile projects. JITed Java performance
is apparently at the threshold of becoming comparable to true compiled
languages. Creating a distributed GA for the sake of finding a mutation
function capable of mutating Java VM opcodes robustly would be
obviously extremely worthile. Searches of integer 3d CA rule space would
be that as well, and simultaneously guarantee a rich source of visuals.
Of course one could also think about writing a code GA searching for
constructive IP stack buffer overruns, and applying just-discovered
exploits immediately... >;)
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