Photon Soup Update

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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Not everyone who mailed him got an answer

[los furtive]

Never post your email address on slashdot. I got 900 emails!

I remember sending him an email. I also remember mentioning that the methodology (him mailing you the file) as opposed to downloading it or using Java Webstart was not the smarted way to go about doing this.

Finally, I also remember he never sent me an invite even though I asked. Oh well, glad it worked out for him in the long run.

Re:Auto-Mirror

[afabbro]

That's not a real answer. It's laziness on the part of the Slashdot "editors".

could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?

Personally, yes. But why not put it to a poll? In fact, I submitted it as a poll question and...it was rejected.

So the quick answer is: "Sure, caching would be neat." It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented.

God forbid the editors would actually do some work! Let's see, they don't read the site (ever see a comment from an editor?), they don't check for dupes, they can't be bothered to spell-check, they don't do new graphics or site design, and the code doesn't change much. What do they do? Make excuses.