SETI@home / BOINC

SETI@home

SETI@home is a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Everyone can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data from Arecibo / Puerto Rico. There's a small but captivating possibility that your computer will detect the faint murmur of a civilization beyond Earth.

On December 15, 2005, after 6 years of operation, Classic SETI@home sent out its last workunit. The current SETI@home project is up and running. The new software uses the BOINC distributed computing platform, which enables computer to work also on several other scientific endeavors.

BOINC

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is the new platform for projects, like SETI@home, that use millions of volunteer computers as a parallel supercomputer.

My BOINC Statistics

At the moment my PC's working for several projects and the statistics you'll find below. Further explanations to come...