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SETI@home: 1999-05-17 [286] [287] [288] 2020-03-31 [289] University of California, Berkeley [14] Astrobiology: Search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing specific radio frequencies emanating from space [290] Yes SETI@home beta: 2006-01-12 [291] 2020-03-31 [289] University of California, Berkeley [292] Software testing Test project of SETI ...
In some cases, SETI@home users have misused company resources to gain work-unit results with at least two individuals getting fired for running SETI@home on an enterprise production system. [33] There is a thread in the newsgroup alt.sci.seti which bears the title "Anyone fired for SETI screensaver" [ 34 ] and ran starting as early as September ...
The original SETI client was a non-BOINC software exclusively for SETI@home. It was one of the first volunteer computing projects, and not designed with a high level of security. As a result, some participants in the project attempted to cheat the project to gain "credits", while others submitted entirely falsified work.
The Quake-Catcher Network was an initiative run by the University of Southern California that aimed to use computer-based accelerometers to detect earthquakes. [1] It used the BOINC volunteer computing platform (a form of distributed computing, similar to SETI@home).
The basis for the BOINC credit system is the cobblestone, named after Jeff Cobb of SETI@home. By definition, 200 cobblestones are awarded for one day of work on a computer that can meet either of two benchmarks: 1,000 double-precision MFLOPS based on the Whetstone benchmark; 1,000 VAX MIPS based on the Dhrystone benchmark
The Berkeley SETI Research Center also hosts the Breakthrough Listen program, [4] [5] [6] which is a ten-year initiative with $100 million funding begun in July 2015 to actively search for intelligent extraterrestrial communications in the universe, in a substantially expanded way, using resources that had not previously been extensively used for the purpose.
SETI@home beta, is a hibernating volunteer computing project using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing platform, as a test environment for future SETI@home projects: AstroPulse is a volunteer computing project searching for primordial black holes , pulsars , and ETI .
Astropulse also makes contributions to the search for ET: first, project proponents believe it may identify a different type of ET signal not identified by the original SETI@Home algorithm; second, proponents believe it may create additional support for SETI by providing a second possible concrete result from the overall search project.