500-fold Increase in Data Flow from SETI Telescope

coondoggie brings us an article from Networkworld about a flood of new data for the SETI@home project. We discussed something similar a few months ago when a new telescope array went live. The vast amount of processing power required to handle the new data is prompting the SETI@home team to make a plea for more volunteers. Quoting the press release: "What triggered the new flow of data was the addition of seven new receivers at Arecibo, which now let the telescope record radio signals from seven regions of the sky simultaneously instead of just one. With greater sensitivity and the ability to detect the polarization of the radio signals, plus 40 times more frequency coverage, Arecibo is set to survey the sky for new radio sources."

Comments

YETI@Home

[Charles Dodgeson]

All my spare cycles are working on Yeti@Home

To sum up what this increase in data will bring:

[Anonymous Coward]

Six hours nineteen minutes right ascension, fourteen degrees twenty-two minutes declination ... no sighting.
Six hours nineteen minutes right ascension, fourteen degrees twenty-three minutes declination ... no sighting.
Six hours nineteen minutes right ascension, fourteen degrees twenty-three minutes declination ... no sighting.

etc. ad infinitum

Re:oh I dunno

[tekiegreg]

I'd wholeheartedly agree with you, so then my life's great priority list is as follows

1) Breathe
2) Sleep
3) Procreate
4) Eat
...
1444) Find Cure for cancer
...
2137832) Find extra terrestrial intelligence

Ergo when I have some computing power to spare I'll devote some to the cure for cancer, when I have the United States's entire Internet worth of computing power, I'll spare a little to extra terrestrial intelligence :-)

700% increase

[flyingfsck]

My first thought was that some aliens discovered spam...

come on, people!

[commodoresloat]

Amen. I stopped using SETI once they moved to BOINC. With that kind of attitude, how do you expect us to ever find the aliens?!!