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

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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.

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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 ).

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The telescope received additional recognition in 1999 when it began to collect data for the SETI @ home project.

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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:

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.

It is similar to the SETI @ Home client, in that it uses a distributed computing client running primarily on home user's computers to correlate georeferenced biological samples with environmental models of the Earth.

It was originally developed to support the SETI @ home project before it became useful as a platform for other distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics.

Although much human intervention was required to distribute and collate results, this project can be seen as one of the forerunners for internet-based distributed computing projects such as SETI @ home and distributed. net.

Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas, United Devices began with distributed computing expertise from distributed. net and SETI @ home, although only a few of the original technical staff from those organizations are still on board.

Some projects, such as SETI @ home, use the Internet to take advantage of distributed computing.

SSL developed and maintains the SETI @ home project which pioneered the application of distributed computing to the space sciences.

Its projects required continual human intervention for the purpose of managing and interpreting the output, but it is considered the ancestor of modern distributed computing applications including SETI @ home, The Globus Project, ClimatePrediction. net, and Grub.

Distributed computing projects such as SETI @ home or NAGAR and popular applications like Google Earth rely primarily on client-side operations.

In 1960, Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake performed the first modern SETI experiment, named " Project Ozma ", after the Queen of Oz in L. Frank Baum's fantasy books.

* Project Ozma, a pioneering SETI experiment in the 1960s led by Frank Drake

Project Ozma was a pioneering SETI experiment started in 1960 by Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake, at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia.

Leuschner Observatory is also home to an optical SETI experiment, carried out under the direction of UC Berkeley astronomer Dan Werthimer.

SETI projects use scientific methods to search for intelligent life on other planets.

The OSU SETI program gained fame on August 15, 1977 when Jerry Ehman, a project volunteer, witnessed a startlingly strong signal received by the telescope.

In 2005, the IAA established the SETI: Post-Detection Science and Technology Taskgroup ( Chairman, Professor Paul Davies ) " to act as a Standing Committee to be available to be called on at any time to advise and consult on questions stemming from the discovery of a putative signal of extraterrestrial intelligent ( ETI ) origin.

Further, they note that the existence of intelligent life on Earth is a plausible reason to expect it elsewhere, and that individual SETI projects have clearly defined " stop " conditions.

The concern over SETI was raised by the science journal Nature in an editorial in October 2006, which commented on a recent meeting of the International Academy of Astronautics SETI study group.

* Series of 90 videos of SETI Talks, by setiinstitute on YouTube

He serves on the Board of Trustees of the SETI Institute.

He later became a co-founder of the Archaeology, Astronautics and SETI Research Association ( AAS RA ), and designed the theme park Mystery Park in Interlaken, Switzerland, that first opened on 23 May 2003.

With NVIDIA's assistance, some BOINC-based projects ( e. g., SETI @ home, MilkyWay @ home ) now have applications that run on NVIDIA GPUs using CUDA.

Featured guests include Nobel laureates and top researchers on the topics of string theory, time travel, black holes, gene therapy, aging, space travel, artificial intelligence, and SETI.

* The SETI @ home project uses a sneakernet to overcome bandwidth limitations: data recorded by the radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico is stored on magnetic tapes which are then shipped to Berkeley, California for processing.

The SETI Institute ’ s public outreach efforts include working with teachers and students in promoting science education and the teaching of evolution, working with NASA on exploration missions such as Kepler and SOFIA, and producing a weekly science program: Are We Alone?

The Mars Institute and SETI operate the Haughton-Mars Project at this site, designed to test many of the challenges of life and work on Mars.

Radio source SHGb02 + 14a is a source and a candidate in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ), discovered in March 2003 by SETI @ home and announced in New Scientist on September 1, 2004.