SETI @ home

[HoleshotHolset]

There was a brief discussion/thread about SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) a while back.



A guy at work has been participating in what is known as "SETI @ home" for a few years... .



Basically - researchers that analyze radio telescope data that they collect require HUGE servers or basically 'render farms' to analyze their "ET broadcasts".



By signing up for this program - your computer at home or work that sits idle (while being connected to the internet) will spend it's "idle" CPU cycles re-analyzing their data... .



Here's the site to sign up and/or get more info:



http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/



Soon as I'm done posting this - I'm signing up... . why not let my idle computer at work do something useful while I'm not here at work glaring at the monitor.



The network admin hasn't said anything about him participating... . the files are small and the risk of harm is very minimal. Besides, if you've got a network/infrastructure that weak... you've got bigger fish to fry.



Matt

 

[E7mack96]

since someone brought this up,



Why not do the cancer research at grid.org. ?



I've been crunching for over 6 years on 7 machines.



I wanted to start a TDR group.



Anyone interested?

 

[HoleshotHolset]

You know... . right after I posted... . someone at work told me that there are a few groups like the SETI group that do the same shared reprocessing scenario... .



I'm all for medical research... . perhaps I'll setup multiple apps on the computer at work and let them eatup CPU cycles... .



Matt

 

[schu777]

I'm game - I've just loaded it on my laptop - might not do much processing, but hey, why not do something worth while than looking for Aliens.



However, is there a linux version of this? If so, where can we get it?



Michael

Originally posted by E7mack96





I wanted to start a TDR group.



Anyone interested?

 

[E7mack96]

Cancer Research

Here is a link to joining Team TDR



http://www.grid.org/services/teams/team.htm?id=3C3990F8-EB11-4799-9EC4-215B27B24D2C



Download the agent from their site, then join the team.



It supports all windows platforms 98 and up



No Linux clients yet.



You can only run one dist. computing program at a time, as otherwise, they will be competeing for your PC processor