"clawing" my way to the top?

[Grub]

I've noticed that people talk about seti work units being small enough to fit inside the cache of a processor. Will the clawhammer provide a big boost since it is a 64 bit processor? I don't really understand it all that well, but if seti is mostly doing floating point math, doesn't 64 bits give you much better resolution on a decimal calculation that 32 bit. Would this result in it processing the workunit in bigger chunks, thus lowering the total Flops that are required to process a work unit?

PS. I'm halfway out of the inactive members and on my way up...Check me out, I think I'm ranked about 90 now.

Is there a synonym for thesaurus?

 

[papasmurf]

seti should be over as we know it by the time anyone will care about that. there is only a few months left till they move from aricebo.

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[silverpig]

Yeah, their new projects sound good though.

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[papasmurf]

Yeah I am glad they are finaly going to get to use that other telescope, with all this processing power aricebo is kinda wimpy lol

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[silverpig]

Arecibo is the big one, but it's fixed and points wherever the earth is pointing basically...

After they use the other telescope (in Australia IIRC), they'll turn SETI into a huge distributed computing effort for the general science community. Cool stuff.

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