Profile: Mikko Saarinen

Your personal background.
Location: Lahti, Finland.
Age: 30 in October.
Married with one child.

Physics is fun, I only don't have enough time to study it.
Your opinions about Einstein@Home
I saw an article in a computer magazine which told about Boinc. Before that I only knew of SETI@Home but now I went and checked what projects were available.
Sadly I was not able to help designing the LHC at that time, but then I came across this project. Wow - I mean it could be more instantly helpful to participate in a project like the predictor, but this is far more interesting!
I hope we can detect gravity waves and build firmer theories of the universe.

I only hope that the work units would be smaller, so the computers could finish with them sooner. It takes an awful lot of time to calculate a wu with a 1300 MHz Duron, especially when I can't leave my computer running at night time.
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