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SETI@home & RC5

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the covering-the-distributed-computing dept.

abh writes "The SETI@home project is now sending new (fresh) work units, after having spent a few weeks in a rut sending the same 2 days worth of observations repeatedly. Read the announcement " As well, we were sent word from a reader that we've lost the #1 position at RC5. Head over and sign up!

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  1. The SETI@Home announcement link is wrong by Pulsar · · Score: 3

    The link should be http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/tech_news.html which takes you to the announcements. The link Hemos posted is to the main page of the SETI@Home site which just carries a 1 line explanation.

    If you read the actual announcements, you'll see it was only one day when the same 2 days worth of work units (actually not even two complete days, just 115 work units from 2 different days) were being sent, then the project moved to about 30k units, which were all that were avaible at the time. Now several months worth of data is avaible. They go into detail as to problems they have had and their solutions on this page, it's rather interesting...