SETI@home Turns Five Today

Posted by michael on Friday May 21, 2004 @03:23AM from the knock-knock-knocking-on-heaven's-door dept.

mfh writes "Five years ago today, SETI@home launched a comprehensive program to search for Extra Terrestrial life in the universe, using millions of home computers to help compile useful data that could some day lead to the discovery of advanced extra terrestrial life. Since inception, SETI@home has found 2,568 persistent Gaussians, possible radio transmissions from a distant planet. SETI began in 1960 with the efforts of Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake, whose Project Ozma became the first modern SETI experiment in history."

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Re:i hate to say it... by Perianwyr+Stormcrow · 2004-05-21 04:10 · Score: 0, Redundant

There are plenty of CPU cycles in the world. If you want to set the balance differently, buy a few machines and run folding on 'em. They're cheap these days.

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Re:Defect by the+chao+goes+mu · 2004-05-21 05:01 · Score: 0, Redundant

Delegating 120% of cpu time seems like a bad idea.

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