SETI@home
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SETI@home ("SETI at home") is a project of the Berkeley SETI Research Center to analyze radio signals with the aim of searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Until March 2020, it was run as an Internet-based public volunteer computing project that employed the BOINC software platform. It is hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and is one of many activities undertaken as part of the worldwide SETI effort.
Key facts
- Distributed computing project.logo
- SETI@home logo.png
- Distributed computing project.developer
- University of California, Berkeley
- Distributed computing project.latest release version
- SETI@home v8：8.00
- Distributed computing project.latest release date
- SETI@home v8 for NVIDIA and AMD/ATi GPU Card：8.12/ AstroPulse v7：7.00/ AstroPulse v7 for nVidia and AMD/ATi GPU Card：7.10/
- Distributed computing project.status
- In hibernation
- Distributed computing project.goal
- Discovery of radio evidence of extraterrestrial life
- Distributed computing project.funding
- Public funding and private donations
- Distributed computing project.operating system
- Microsoft Windows, Linux, Android, macOS, Solaris,IBM AIX, FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64 Unix, OS/2 Warp, eComStation
- Distributed computing project.platform
- Cross-platform
- Distributed computing project.genre
- Volunteer computing
- Distributed computing project.license
- GPL <!-- or
- Distributed computing project.licence
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- Distributed computing project.active users
- 91,454 (March 2020)
- Distributed computing project.total users
- 1,803,163 (March 2020)
- Distributed computing project.active hosts
- 144,779 (March 2020)
- Distributed computing project.total hosts
- 165,178 (March 2020)
- Distributed computing project.screenshot
- SETI@home_custom_background_and_logo_screensaver.gif
- Distributed computing project.screenshot_size
- 250px
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
- Image
- SETI@home custom background and logo screensaver.gif
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- Commons category
- SETI@home
- publication date
- 1999-05-17
- inception
- 1999-05-17
- software version identifier
- 7.6.22
- WordLift URL
- data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/seti_home
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18 sectionsContents
- Scientific research
- Procedure details
- Results
- Technology
- Software
- Statistics
- Project future
- Competitive aspect
- Challenges
- Closure of Arecibo Observatory
- More restrictive computer use policies in businesses
- Funding
- Unofficial clients
- Hardware and database failures
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
SETI@home ("SETI at home") is a project of the Berkeley SETI Research Center to analyze radio signals with the aim of searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Until March 2020, it was run as an Internet-based public volunteer computing project that employed the BOINC software platform. It is hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and is one of many activities undertaken as part of the worldwide SETI effort.
SETI@home software was released to the public on May 17, 1999, making it the third large-scale use of volunteer computing over the Internet for research purposes, after Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) was launched in 1996 and distributed.net in 1997. Along with MilkyWay@home and Einstein@home, it has the investigation of phenomena in interstellar space as its primary purpose.