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In 2003, Radio source SHGb02 + 14a was isolated by SETI @ home analysis, although it has largely been discounted by further study.
Screen shot of the screensaver for SETI @ home, a distributed computing project in which volunteers donate idle computer power to analyze radio signals for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence
SETI @ home was conceived by David Gedye along with Craig Kasnoff and is a popular volunteer distributed computing project that was launched by the University of California, Berkeley in May 1999.
Any individual can become involved with SETI research by downloading the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing ( BOINC ) software program, attaching to the SETI @ home project, and allowing the program to run as a background process that uses idle computer power.
The SETI @ home program itself runs signal analysis on a " work unit " of data recorded from the central 2. 5 MHz wide band of the SERENDIP IV instrument.
After computation on the work unit is complete, the results are then automatically reported back to SETI @ home servers at UC Berkeley.
As of June 28, 2009 the SETI @ home project has over 180, 000 active participants volunteering a total of over 290, 000 computers.
These computers give SETI @ home an average computational power of 617 teraFLOPS.
As of 2010, after 10 years of data collection, SETI @ home has listened to that one frequency at every point of over 67 percent of the sky observable from Arecibo with a least 3 scans ( out of the goal of 9 scans ), which covers about 20 percent of the full celestial sphere.
Although other volunteering projects such as Zooniverse credit users for discoveries, there is currently no crediting or early notification by SETI @ Home following the discovery of a signal.
* SETI @ home
If a virus is detected, the window turns red and the scan is stopped, and the alert is shown once you exit the screensaver ) or a distributed computing application ( such as the SETI @ home project ).
* SETI @ home, a distributed computing project
The telescope received additional recognition in 1999 when it began to collect data for the SETI @ home project.
SETI @ home, the largest distributed computing experiment on Earth, is perhaps the Society's best-known SETI project.
* SETI @ home
The main active competition is the RoboRumble @ Home, a continuous league based on distributed computation in a similar way to SETI @ Home.
SETI @ home (" SETI at home ") is an Internet-based public volunteer computing project employing the BOINC software platform, hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States.
SETI @ home was released to the public on May 17, 1999, making it the second large-scale use of distributed computing over the Internet for research purposes, as Distributed. net was launched in 1997.
The two original goals of SETI @ home were:

SETI and home
The current BOINC environment, a development of the original SETI @ home, is providing support for many computationally intensive projects in a wide range of disciplines.

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* Orbit @ home
The processes of protein folding and binding can be simulated using such technique as molecular mechanics, in particular, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo, which increasingly take advantage of parallel and distributed computing ( Folding @ home project ; molecular modeling on GPU ).
Central servers are typically used for listing potential peers ( Tor ), coordinating their activities ( Folding @ home ), and searching ( Napster, eMule ).
Similarly, Rosetta @ home is a distributed computing project for predicting ( or translating ) protein structures.
Stanford University's Folding @ home project is a distributed computing research effort which uses its approximately 5 petaFLOPS (~ 10 x86 petaFLOPS ) of computing power to attempt to model the tertiary ( and quaternary ) structures of proteins, as well as other aspects of how and why proteins fold into the inordinately complex and varied shapes they take.
Folding @ home allows for the modelling of disease states that are not as easily induced, without the need for test animals.
Due to its enormous flexibility, which has only briefly been discussed here, coupled with its ability to improve over time, Folding @ home and projects like it are quickly becoming indispensable tools among researchers from a broad variety of disciplines.
To date, over 78 scientific papers have been published on discoveries that relied on Folding @ home.
Den Bosch is also home to the European Ceramic Work Centre, currently branded as Sundaymorning @ ekwc.
There are distributed computing projects which use idle CPU or GPU time of personal computers to solve problems such as protein folding or prediction of protein structure, one prominent example being the Folding @ home project.
* Stardust @ home, a citizen science project
FCS is home to 35 schools – twenty elementary, nine middle, five high schools, as well as the Academies for Creative Education ( A. C. E ) that houses two schools, Forsyth Academy ( a charter non-traditional high school )/ Academy @ Night and iAchieve Virtual Academy, FCS ' 6 – 12 online school, and one program, Gateway Academy ( the alternative program for middle and high school students ).

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Top7 was featured as the RCSB Protein Data Bank's ' Molecule of the Month ' in October 2005, and a superposition of the respective cores ( residues 60-79 ) of its predicted and X-ray crystal structures are featured in the Rosetta @ home logo.
The centre is popularly known as @ Bristol, due to the appearance of its logo.

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In Europe there is a home composting standard and associated logo that enables consumers to identify and dispose of packaging in their compost heap.
This version of the script logo has been on the front of the away jerseys since 2001 and the home ones since 2004. The Orioles began the 2008 season in a rebuilding mode under President of Baseball Operations Andy MacPhail.
The home cap and batting helmet are navy blue with a red bill and features the Chief Wahoo logo on the front.
Script " Indians " is located across the front of the jersey in the same fashion as the home uniform ( red lettering with a white outline ); the Chief Wahoo logo is on the left sleeve.
Houston Astros logo with their former home, The Astrodome Stadium 1975 – 1993
Since taking over the franchise, Attanasio has worked hard to build bridges with Milwaukee baseball fans, including giving away every seat to the final home game of 2005 free of charge and bringing back the classic " ball and glove " logo of the club's glory days on " Retro Friday " home games, during which they also wear versions of the team's old pinstriped uniforms.
The uniforms ' lettering had the same style of letters as the new cap logo with heavily stylized " BREWERS " lettering on the home jerseys and " MILWAUKEE " on the road grays.
It was navy blue with the home " BREWERS " lettering on the front and featured the Brewers ' logo on the lower left side.
The home uniforms also featured a patch on the left sleeve consisting of the cap logo with a gold outline of the state of Wisconsin behind it, showing the Brewers statewide appeal.
Like the home uniforms, the road grays will be worn only with blue caps, undersleeves, belts and socks, and will have the 50th Anniversary patch in place of the Mets skyline logo on the left sleeves for 2012.
Currently, the team wears home uniforms with " Athletics " spelled out in script writing and road uniforms with " Oakland " spelled out in script writing, with the cap logo consisting of the traditional " A " with " apostrophe-s ." The home cap is green with a gold bill and white lettering, while the road cap, debuting in 1994, is all green with gold lettering.
The logo was completely changed when the team changed stadiums between the 2003 and 2004 seasons, as the logo now looks like home plate at a baseball field with San Diego written in sand font at the top right corner and the Padres new script written completely across the center.
Under the Ameriquest moniker, the Ballpark featured a replica of the Liberty Bell in the stands above the Diamond Club ( representing Ameriquest's logo ) that rang after home runs.
The home cap is navy blue with aqua trim on the ventilation holes and an aqua button, with the cap logo depicting a bluefish interwoven with a capital " B " centered on the front.
The team's primary home uniform logo was the word " Pride " in script, and included the number " 1 " inside the capital " P ."
Both home and away jersey sleeves sport the Bears ' primary logo.
The team's alternate logo is the foot of a Sasquatch / Bigfoot and can be seen on the shoulders of the Avalanche's home and away jerseys.
The home jersey was white, with blue Magic logo and numbers with black trim.
The home jerseys were white and the Magic logo was blue with silver and black trim.
The first Cavaliers uniform under the new scheme featured the Cavs logo ( with a V in the shape of a hoop and circle above as basketball ) in an arched pattern and the player name sewn onto the back shoulder as a patch, with orange being the primary color in both the away and home uniforms.
Until the 1988 – 89 NBA season the road uniform had " San Antonio " on the front while the home uniform featured the team nickname adopted from the Spurs logo ; from 1973 – 82 the road uniform lettering is black with silver trim.

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