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A site devoted to Astronomy, Computers, and the use of computers in astronomy.








SETI@home

A good example of the intent of this website it the Berkeley SETI@home project. The individuals at Berkeley have created a distrubited computing experiment to search for exterterestial radio signals. Basically, radio signals are recorded and broken down into many small chunks. Those chucks are sent out to many different computers that analyze the data. Normally, all this would be performed by one computer, but by involving literally hundreds of thousands of computers, the time between recording and analyzing is drastically reduced.

Institute for Computation Cosmology
and the Cosmology Machine

Another good example is an experiment currently being carried out by the Institute for Computational Cosmology. Here's a quote from ICC describing their Cosmology Machine:The Cosmology Machine takes data from observations about the behaviour of stars, gases, galaxies and the mysterious dark matter throughout the universe and then calculates, at ultra high speed, how galaxies and solar systems formed and evolved. By testing different theories of cosmic evolution it can simulate virtual universes to test which ideas come closest to explaining the real universe.
They have pictures of the computers performing the experiment along with sample movies of simulations it has created. This is a perfect example of how computers can aid us in understanding better our universe.




Here's a really cool site.
Simply type in the URL and this site will tell you
what server that site is running, plus the operating system.
Netcraft



--General Computing Information--


FYI for those who didn't know
Linux powers the Google search engine,
which runs nearly 6,000 servers in parallel.
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