From: Jeff Sheldon (jeff_at_jurai.net)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 23:29:49 PDT
I was interesting mainly in seeing what kind of reaction I'd get if
I inquired about porting SETI_at_Home to the Newton platform, but I actually
received a response that wasn't an outright laugh:
> Subject: Re: seti for StrongARM SA-110
>
> I'm not sure the Newton would be sufficient for SETI_at_home. SETI_at_home
> requires 32 MB of memory, does the Newton have this much? Also, the
> Newton processor would probably take quite a while to do a workunit.
> If you're still interested in porting it though, I can put you in
> contact with our porting manager. A developer in the Newton community
> would have to do all the actual work, since none of us have the time or
> experience on that device.
I just wish PVM or MPI ran under NewtOS so all my 2100s in parallel could
process a dataset and put 'Newton OS' on the list of active systems. Of
course extra heap space would be helpful. :) It's nice to see that their
code isn't necessarily closed to outside developers.
-Jeff
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