Welcome to the Tarheel State!

 Triangle FoS

This is the WWW home of the Triangle Friends of SETI@home.

We're small in number but powerful in our desire to help SETI@home to be a success!  If you live in the Triangle area of North Carolina, feel free to join our team!  (And even if you aren't, how could we stop you?! :^<)

The Triangle Cities, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, are so named due to their geographic relation to one another.  Also, since 1960, we have the Research Triangle Park to thank for national and international fame (and confusion as to the origin of our name).  The Triangle is one of the fastest growing and highest tech. areas in the southeast (or, for that matter, the entire) United States. Now, if we could just get everyone in the Triangle to use SETI@home for their screen savers ...

While you're bouncing around the World Wide Web, you might want to look in on another Triangle resident and SETI@home enthusiast, Dr. Lars Nyland.  The last time I checked, he's in the top six thousandth of one percent of SETI@home users!

There's a high-speed floating-point parallel multi-processor system at the UNC-Chapel Hill Dept. of Computer Science where Lars is using SETI@home as the processors' "idle" task!  What my 200MHz Pentium MMX performs in more than thirty hours, takes one of its processors just under four hours and ten minutes!

(Wouldn't it have been great if we could have gotten him on the TriFoS team!  Oh, well. :^<)

Check back here for more news and links to SETI, radio astronomy, the Triangle, its cities and North Carolina as I build this site!

Y'all* come back now!  Ya hear?!