[darcybaston]

SETI@HOME was kind enough to send me an email saying it had been about a year since I last contributed. I'm participating again. I'm glad to see more responsible cpu cycles have been continuously devoted all the while.

[Lateralus]

Yeah, I got the same e-mail myself.

I've been contributing my efforts to RC5-72 for the past year. But lately I've been seriously questioning the entire point of RC5, so I may just pop back up in SETI BOINC.

[reader50]

I must have become active again just in time to miss the email. After maybe 3 years of inactivity on SETI, I benchmarked BOINC last month.

[darcybaston]

Lateralus, I got swept back up into RC5 too. It's where I began doing distributed processing in the mid 90s, and will always be the cozy nostalgic escape.

Hey, off-topic, what's power.org ? I visisted it to read the mission goal, but don't know what "Power Architecture" mean. Does that mean PowerPC IBM CPUs?

[Lateralus]

Power.org was established last year by IBM as an organization to promote the use of and development for POWER and PowerPC CPUs.

In addition to larger companies like Motorola/Freescale and PA-Semi that produce PowerPC CPUs alongside IBM, many other smaller companies are also members. There are multiple membership levels in the organization, the top tier of which is 'founder' and includes those larger companies like IBM, Freescale and PA-Semi all the way down to 'developer' which consists of many programmer hobbyists, independent software developers and general POWER/PowerPC enthusiasts like myself.

Still waiting on my membership t-shirt...