3-29-2008 Quake-Catcher Network - Quake@home

[Rudy Toody]

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
I really wonder how much computiong power they need to cull out the false positives.
I mean that is not hard, but it is a tremendous amount of data ...

I think they should have a way to send the data to all the crunchers to triangulate. That way we could be crunching data in addition waiting for some triggers.

 

[petrusbroder]

I would not be surprised if that was in the plans.
It is not clearly said in the science section and the plans, but I think I think that is what they may be thinking.
See the Research Center, Development Opportunities section of their site: http://qcn.stanford.edu/research/opportunities.php :

2. QCN will develop more sophisticated event detection and trigger association algorithms to handle the large quantity of data expected/needed.
3. QCN will develop data distribution systems for dissemination to seismologists. Input is needed from fellow scientists as to what data types are desired (Please contact Jesse F. Lawrence.

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: Rudy Toody

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Btw why would it need soldering for a USB sensor??

Outside the US it comes as a kit. I have no idea why.

I can't even see why their is a different version, I'd say that everyone should just by the US version.

 

[Rudy Toody]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Originally posted by: Rudy Toody

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Btw why would it need soldering for a USB sensor??

Outside the US it comes as a kit. I have no idea why.

I can't even see why their is a different version, I'd say that everyone should just by the US version.

I believe that they don't ship outside the US/Canada. Students ship them out from an office on campus, so they don't want to mess with the VAT.

 

[Assimilator1]

Oh, I see, still it's totally daft that the non US one needs soldering :roll:, that's gonna put a lot of people off.