Article Alley helps Seti
Saturday, February 7th, 2009SETi the search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence has long been a topic of discussion in our office if not on our site, so we have decided to donate our unused office processing power to the project. Through SETI@home we are using our out of hours office PC’s spare capacity to analyse the radio signals received by SETI
To learn more about SETI and how you can help visit SETI
Background info from their website:-
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology.
Radio telescope signals consist primarily of noise (from celestial sources and the receiver’s electronics) and man-made signals such as TV stations, radar, and satellites. Modern radio SETI projects analyze the data digitally. More computing power enables searches to cover greater frequency ranges with more sensitivity. Radio SETI, therefore, has an insatiable appetite for computing power.
Previous radio SETI projects have used special-purpose supercomputers, located at the telescope, to do the bulk of the data analysis. In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to e xplore this idea. SETI@home was originally launched in May 1999.
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