Profile: davidmcw

Your personal background.
I am married to Ellie, and have three great kids, Gordon 6, Liam 3 & Iona 2. I'm a 38 year old Unix administrator from Barrhead Scotland but working for a VAR in Novi, Michigan - INCAT. I enjoy messing around with computers, mostly Sun & Linux but Windows when I have to. I also enjoy good beer, good wine & good food. When I'm not doing the above, I like to play disc golf. The photo is of me, slightly hammmered, in Toronto.
Your opinions about Einstein@Home
I guess I always wanted to be a scientist but lacked the opportunites, so I think that running the Boinc projects are the next best thing. I jumped on SETI@home pretty much around the start, May 1999. I have been running Boinc for a few months now and relish the opportunity to work on the diverse projects it provides - Einstein@Home, climateprediction.net, LHC & SETI. The thought of a single wasted CPU second irkes me, so much so I am almost a distributed computing evangelist sometimes.
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