Re: SETI like tass project

["Dirk Terrell" <terrell@boulder.swri.edu>]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:00:01 -0800 (PST), Ron Wickersham wrote:

>but consider mailing the cd-roms to send the data rather than internet
>transmission of the raw data.  

But, to me, that isn't "SETI-like". :-)

>which data is where and progress on the overall goal of processing all the
>data has similarities between tass and seti.   can you use your experience
>to help a mail channel for bulk raw data transfer and on-line for co-
>ordination and results transmission?

I still think the processing of the raw data is best done at the
observing site. Data can be processed at a rate comparable to or faster
than the rate at which they are obtained. Munching on the reduced data
could be something that a distributed model would be well-suited to.
Being an eclipsing binary person, an example I can think of would be
the analysis of eclipsing binary light curves we obtain. I'm working on
a genetic-algorithm optimizer for eb light curves and that definitely
would be something that a distributed approach would be good for.

Dirk