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involving SETI & new ways to attack the mountain of data. Can will this be done for F@H, what sort of time frame guesstimate

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Should SETI achieve & applicable to F@H is that the end of donors usefulness?

There were no concrete announcements in that article, it was just "gee whiz quantum computing!", so I don't think anything's even on the horizon yet. But if there's some kind of breakthrough that leads to new ways to do the work that F@H does without using 10's of thousands of PCs, then I think they would want to take advantage of that. And that's fine. After all, it's not about us, it's about the science.

So were pioneers & we don't know it yet LOL

Thanks jonault

Rico

SETI is looking for some kind of specific pattern that somehow can be identified as unique amid lots of non-unique noise. FAH isn't trying to differentiate between patterns that originate from intelligence and trying to ignore all non-intelligent signals.

FAH is discerning How and Why certain things happen or do not happen. The scope of the search is very, very different.

So r u saying quantum computing has no value for F@H?

Ricorocks wrote:So r u saying quantum computing has no value for F@H?

Not at the moment.
At the moment, scientists still ponder how to effectively write programs for quantum computers.
But it does have tremendous potential for folding and many other computer crunching applications.

IMHO, Quantum Computing is a bit like Santa Clause. If you believe in him, it's nice to think of how wonderful things are going to be ... full of wonderful surprises ... once he gets here. And, factually, you may get a new bicycle next Christmas. ... but it might not materialize for a couple more years.

Speculation is nice to ponder and to talk about, but nobody really knows what the future will bring.