Hardware Stats:

We are collectively using a few dozen CPUs. The majority of the computers are at the Digital Imaging Research Division of Duke University Medical Center and the Remote Sensing and GIS Lab of Utah State University.

Who We Are:

We are a group of mostly scientists and engineers who hang out on the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) EFnet channel #bolo, which is a chat channel for the Internet Mac tank game Bolo. The game happens to have a little green man (LGM) as the tank pilot. (If you have QuickTime, check out this 1 MB movie.) So when the SETI@home project came along, naturally we threw all our resources behind this worthy cause. Hey, finding LGM sure is more exciting than cracking encryption stuff.

Soon after SETI@home started, we clawed our way up to #9 in the top 100 users list, but we've since fallen out of that list entirely. As you can see from our current rank above, however, we're still better than 99.98% of the million plus worldwide SETI@home users. (See their total stats.) In addition to vanity, the following team roster is important for documenting our efforts. One day when we find a real LGM, we want to be sure everybody gets to stand on that ceremonial stage in Stockholm, even if only 3 of us can get gold medals (some bizarre Nobel rule, or so I'm told). We may be reached by email at our team login address above.

Joseph Lo, Ph.D., Alan Baydush, Ph.D., Mia Markey, and Erik Frederick (Jolo, Max, Mia, and fredder, respectively) are biomedical engineers working in Duke University Medical Center's department of radiology. Jolo and Max spend their days staring at digital images of breasts while Erik and Mia do all the real work. Together they are contributing over 20 CPUs (follow their progress) from Duke to this effort.

 6 Sun UltraSPARC II   (2x300 MHz, 3x450 MHz, 1x333 MHz)
 1 Sun UltraSPARC  I   (175 MHz)
 2 Sun SPARC      20   (2x75 MHz)
 1 Intel Pentium3      (2x450 MHz)
 2 Intel Pentium2      (333 MHz, 350 MHz)
 5 Apple G3            (1x400 MHz, 1x450 MHz, 2x266 MHz, 1x300 MHz)
 1 Motorola 604e PPC   (180 MHz)
 1 Apple 604		   (132 MHz)

Don Thompson, Ph.D., is our fearless leader. He is a space physicist, which means he knows a lot of really cool stuff, like how to build neutron bombs and web spiders. He led us into the top 10 with over 60 computers from Utah State University, but unfortunately those computers have all been returned to real science duty. Recently he put us back on the map with this big cluster.

 1 Sun SPARC 2         (75 MHz)
 1 DEC Alpha           (600 MHz)
 1 DEC Alpha           (125 MHz)
 1 Apple iMac A        (233 MHz)
 1 Apple iMac D        (333 MHz)
 1 Intel Pentium2      (350 MHz)

Lisa Storm is a school teacher and our official spokesmodel. She believes there is intelligent life in the universe, just not on Earth.

 1 Apple  G3          (350 MHz)
 1 Apple 8600         (300 MHz)
 1 Apple 8500         (150 MHz)

Matthew Koehler is finishing his doctorate in educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin. When he's not standing in line for Star Wars: Episode II, he enjoys home brewing and Jenny Jones.

 1 Apple  G3          (400 MHz)
 1 Apple 9600         (300 MHz)
 1 Apple 8500         (120 MHz)
 1 Intel Pentium2     (400 MHz)

Sam Huffman is a design engineer for Intel. You'd think he'd help our cause by taking over all those hundreds of experimental next-generation PCs sitting in his lab, but no, he is kicking in only one lousy P2. Sigh, we love him anyway.

 1 Intel Pentium2     (450 MHz)

Carl Osterwald is an electrical engineer working as a senior scientist for the Department of Energy's photovoltaics program. He gets his manly biceps from lifting big batteries.

 1 Apple  G3          (300 MHz)

Todd Lipcon is our SETI Apprentice. He's a middle-school student who likes to program and play Clan Lord, Avara, and Bolo.

 1 Apple 8500	      (120 Mhz)

Dan Olson aka Drib is a Ft. Lauderdale computer person (HTML, graphic design, etc.) and also a musician.

 1 AMD K6/2      (450 Mhz)
 1 AMD K6/2      (350 Mhz)

Aaron Bratcher aka MegaWatt is a real Bolo dinosaur and is perhaps most (in)famous as the author of the perennially "soon to be released" PC Bolo clone Tank Assault.

 1 Apple G3/MacOS X  (350 Mhz)
 1 Intel Pentium2    (200 Mhz)

Kevin Girard is finishing his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at U Penn. We're not even sure how many computers he has working on this task, but we wanted to include him here anyway.

Links

Scientific Stuff

• SETI@home Technical News Reports
• Arecibo Observatory Telescope Schedule
• SETI@home FAQ

Vanity/stats pages for selected users from the Top 100:

• UC Berkeley Millennium (also see here)
• NTNU SETI
• xilef
• Rainer Hagenau
• SETI@ETHZ-Team

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Andrew Welch aka Berserkir for contributing the LGM.com domain services, and the Digital Imaging Research Division of Duke University Medical Center department of radiology for hosting this page.