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SETI@Home to Crunch More Data

Posted by michael on from the little-furry-animals-with-big-sharp-teeth dept.

BigDave writes: "In this article on Wired, it describes how SETI is gradually running out of data, as the current data acquisition system cannot keep up with the rate of processing (since they now have 3 million users processing data). They have acquired a new high-speed digital data recorder which is Linux-powered, and was donated by Hewlett-Packard."

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  1. Help out Stanford's @home projects!!! by taco1991 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    For those of you with some extra CPU cycles left over from running SETI@home, you should check out what Stanford's Pande Group is doing. Their two big distributed programs are Folding@home and Genome@home which do research in protein folding and their geometry. And if you're the type that worries what happens with the research (for profit, non profit, who gets the results, etc.), check the F@H FAQ that answers some of those questions - it's all non profit and eventually the results will be publicly available.

    IMHO, I like Folding@home and Genome@home more than SETI because their results hit closer to home than SETI. But it's all in the name of science so as long as everyone can benefit from some spare CPU cycles, it's all good =)
    t.

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    "Corrupting our youth one mind at a time"
  2. Is seti@home really worth it? by jfoulman · · Score: 0, Redundant
    You can brand this as troll. Thats fine...

    But it seems to me that this all of this computing power could be put to better use. There are a number of projects on the net that are similiar to seti but use the extra computing power to compute genes and try to find ways to cure diseases like cancer.

    I'm not saying that seti is a waste. But personally I am more interested in finding a cure for aunt bettys breast cancer, than searching for life 50 million light years away.