Team “Weasels for Extraterrestrial Domination”
SETI@home
This stuff is a bit outdated as I admit I haven’t run this in quite a long time, but it’s a nifty idea anyway. I have been a participant in SETI@home off and on over the years. Seti@home is a distributed CPU project that analyzes radio signals looking for extraterrestrial intelligence.
What is SETI? | SETI@home FAQ | Technical News
Current Seti News
Project News December 18, 2008: A version of SETI@home that runs on NVIDIA graphics boards using their CUDA computing engine has been released. The CUDA version runs up to 10X faster than the CPU version. NVIDIA has put out a press release about the SETI@home CUDA client and about GPU Grid. See directions for getting started. (...read more →)
Project News December 8, 2008: Overland Storage donated 10 Terabytes of network attached storage to us today (in the form of one Snap Server 18000 and two SD30 expansion units). This will vastly help our current workunit/raw data storage problems. Thank you Overland! (...read more →)
Project News December 8, 2008: Giuseppe Cocconi, author (with Philip Morrison) of the first paper on radio SETI, 'Searching for Interstellar Communications' and a central figure in particle physics and cosmic rays, passed away on 9 November at age 94. Read more about Cocconi. (...read more →)
Project News November 20, 2008: Check out the new Spanish-language site, BOINC SETI Chile. (...read more →)
Project News November 14, 2008: The CASPER/SETI@home/Astropulse teams wrote a joint paper about New SETI Sky Surveys for Radio Pulses. Warning: highly technical (to be published in Acta Astronautica). (...read more →)
Lifted from the SETI@home homepage:
SETI@home is a scientific experiment that will harness the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data. There’s a small but captivating possibility that your computer will detect the faint murmur of a civilization beyond Earth.
You can join my team, The Weasels for Extraterrestrial Domination (aka “team 4625”)! Join the team here. If you’re not a part of SETI@home yet, the first step is to download the correct client, then install it. What does it entail? SETI@home runs as a screensaver, so you won’t notice it while you’re working.
If you join the team, feel free to use the team logo:
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