Tuesday, April 02, 2002

SETI@Home - Three years and 1397 possible signs of life

Posted 4/2/2002 - 1:29AM

by zAmboni



With members numbering over 3.5 million the SETI@Home project has been returning steady results over the past three years. The project is closing in on the 1 million year CPU milestone and has produced over 470 million results. The S@H team has started sifting through those results to identify possible final candidates for further investigation. The most recent newsletter points out there are 1397 persistent Gaussian signals which represent the best candidates for Extraterrestrial signals (The Planetary Society has a good explanation on the Gaussian screening in this article). A selection of these final persistent signals will be examined in detail by observation with dedicated radio telescope time.
In this search for ET, Team Ars Technica Lamb Chop (TLC) has been leading the pack in work unit crunching. While TLC has a bit of cushion over second place SETI.Germany, our German freunde has been steadily eating into that lead. Currently SETI.Germany is nearly doubling the output of TLC, and pretty soon the TLC top spot may be in jeopardy. TLC is currently working to redouble its efforts and widen the gap. Anyone with computer cycles to spare can download a Windows, Mac, OS X, or command line client to help out (command line client is preferable). After installing the client, head on over to this page to join Team Lamb Chop.

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