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Photon Soup Update

Posted by timothy on from the happy-4th dept.

rkeene517 writes "Two and a half months ago I posted an article asking for spare computer cycles. I was swamped by emails and volunteers. After the first weeks most dropped out. The die-hards kept running the program and we simulated 45.3 billion photons. The pictures are here. Thanks to all that helped out. I will be submitting the images to SIGGRAPH 2005 and a paper. (P.S. Never post your email address on slashdot. I got 900 emails! ouch.)"

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  1. Wow. by James+A.+S.+Joyce · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Subjecting yourself to two slashdottings in a row - you're taking quite a bullet for science, huh? I'd be more impressed if you people could simulate turbulent fluid flow, huh?

    GNAA

  2. endangered specIEs on the internet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    kind of rhymes with feekeys.

    the badtoll for yOUR 'independence' being extracted from you buy yOUR owned corepirate nazi felon glowbull warmongering execrable, is absolutely unpayable by any population. lookout bullow.

    all is not lost.

    consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... doggedly rebuilding civilizations since/until forever. see you there?

  3. a billion points of light...? by erroneus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is that what the ex-president was talking about? Has anyone ever figured it out?

  4. /.ed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    /.ed already

  5. 900 emails... by kiwirob · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Heck I get at least 900 virus emails everyday sometimes over 2000 a day.

    Thanks to the guys over at Clam Anti Virus and MailScanner most of these get caught at the mail server.

    We have a daily humor mailing list with a few 100,000 subscribers and every time a new virus comes out we get blasted from all the unprotected windows/outlook express users.

    To make sure we don't get infected and send out virus to all the users we use FreeBSD for our desktop OS and Evolution as our email client.

    Oh and then there is all the spam we get sent, thanks to SpamAssassin for filtering most of this out.