SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ade5a7

#HackerNews #SETI #SETIatHome #DataAcquisition #FrontEndProcessing #Astronomy

SETI@Home Has Finally Been Completed After 27 Years, Here's What Was Found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt07R_amRT8
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

#SETI #SETIAtHome #BOINC #DistributedComputing #Science #Space #Telescope #Arecibo #Aliens

SETI@home … Anfang 2000 gab es auch einen Mac-68k-Client, und so stapfte mein braver Mac SE/30 damit ausgestattet los, um Anomalien zu finden. Die erste WU war schnell per Ethernetkarte heruntergeladen, und das rechnen startete.

Der 1989 als „Numbercruncher“ bekannt gewordene Würfelmac (68030 CPU, 68882 FPU, 16 MHz) gab alles, aber etwa 30 Minuten bevor die Work Unit „durch“ war, endete ihre Lebenszeit und wurde verworfen. Bitter für den kleinen Racker, aber nun gehörte er in der Wissenschaft offiziell zum alten Eisen.

Eine Zeit lang hat dann ein Performa 475 Work Units bearbeitet, in einem Bruchteil der Zeit, auf einem 68040 bei 25 MHz.

Der SE/30 durfte dann wieder Framemaker 3, ClarisWorks 3, Canvas 3.5.6 und MagiCMac ausführen.

^g

#blastfromthepast #setiathome #mac68k

Congratulations to the SETI@Home project for successfully completing their analysis.

27 years ago I helped build a decentralized computing platform that was a more general form of what they were doing, but they were always the OG.

Here’s a nice discussion of the results. (Spoiler: nothing world-shaking, but interesting next steps)

#science #technology #seti #setiathome #decentralized #wow

https://youtu.be/Gt07R_amRT8

Nostalgia tahun 2000an gabung SETI@home. Saking bangganya sampai contribution certificate nya di-print, dibingkai, dan dipajang di tembok.

Sekarang jadinya pengen coba iseng-iseng ikutan boinc.

#science #seti #setiathome #boinc #scienceunited

Tra il 1999 e il 2020 milioni di persone in tutto il mondo hanno prestato i loro computer ai ricercatori della #UniversityofCaliforniaBerkeley. I partecipanti al progetto, chiamato Seti@home, hanno usato i propri computer per analizzare i dati registrati dal #radiotelescopio di #Arecibo a #PortoRico, alla #ricerca di #segnaliradio dallo spazio riconducibili a tecnologie create da forme di #vita intelligente.

https://www.media.inaf.it/2026/01/19/tutti-in-cerca-di-et-ventun-anni-di-setihome/

#scienza #SETI #SETIAtHome #INAF #vitaaliena

I had that running on my home and work computer BITD!

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-enthusiasts-home-scientists-homing.html

#SETI #SETIatHome #DistributedComputing