Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

SETI Distributed Searching

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-i-like-distributed dept.

Everyone, their brother, mother and dog wrote to point us over to SETI@Home v1.0. Taking a note from the distributed playback, they are giving clients to use the spare cycles on your machine - check out more information, if you like.

2 of 207 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Don't be silly. by jonabbey · · Score: 4

    Um. Have you read the background materials at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu at all? The SETI@Home project is being carried out by a team at the same university that is doing the Serendip IV project, which is the main SETI project previously underway. They are funded, they have published (very interesting) technical details about their methodology, and they are every bit as much a 'part of' SETI as is anyone else.

    Are you upset because Jodie Foster didn't use SETI@Home on her personal computer in Contact or something? Who do you imagine decides who is 'affiliated with' SETI?

    According to the published papers on their site, SETI@Home will examine as many possible signals as the Serendip IV project. Yes, SETI@Home will process a smaller frequency range, but it will examine it in much greater detail, which much more expensive computational analysis thanks to your computer and mine.

    Incidentally, I'd recommend taking a look at the scientific papers linked to the SETI@Home site.. what they are doing to perform reasonable data analysis on signals picked up by their piggy-back receivers while the Areceibo telescope is in use and even in motion for other projects doing direct observation for traditional radio astronomy is fascinating. No wonder it took them so much longer to get the SETI@Home client out than it took the distributed.net people to get their network running.

    --
    - jon

    Ganymede, a GPL'ed metadirectory for UNIX
  2. Get your windows client here by Kritty · · Score: 4

    All of the Mirrors that they list are FTP based - But the UNIX Version downloads are http based... So, I did a quick peek in the UNIX directory, and tada - the Windows client...

    http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/software/seti athome_win_1_0.exe

    BTW - I also noticed that they finally came out with a Solaris x86 client :)