The production of crypto currency became so popular that
miners literally dared all the powerful graphics adapters from the
counters. Dissatisfied gamers can not find the desired video card, and
NVIDIA encourages sellers to limit the sale of devices, releasing one by
one. But, as it turned out, gamers are not the only people affected by
the activity of miners. Recently, with similar problems experienced the
specialists of the project SETI, engaged in the search for
extraterrestrial civilizations. It turned out that the powerful video
cards needed by alien seekers are simply not on sale, and in fact their
absence negatively affects the calculations of large amounts of data.
One of the leading experts of the project Dan Vertimer drew attention
to the problem. According to him, SETI specialists from the University
of California at Berkeley wanted to buy new equipment necessary to
increase the computing power of the local observatory, but the lack of
graphics processors of the latest versions made this upgrade impossible.
“In order to conduct calculations as efficiently as possible, we need
graphics processors of the latest versions, but we just can not find
them – they are not available for sale. This limits our ability to find
aliens, “- said Vertimer.
The professor also noted that earlier his team had not faced such a
problem – the deficit began to be observed in the last few months. In
order to improve the parameters of some telescopes involved in the
search for aliens, scientists need up to one hundred processors.
SETI has been searching for extraterrestrial civilizations since
1959, but since then researchers have not moved so far – traces of
extraterrestrial civilizations have not yet been detected, but the
search for video cards will soon be successful – AMD reports that it
plans to increase the speed to produce more powerful graphics adapters .
Surely this will partially solve the problem.
