SETI@HOME Finding what is in Outer Space (Not looking for ET)

It looks like the mother of all bird baths. The Arecibo Radio Telescope from Puerto Rico is a thousand feet across, and crouches within a natural bowl with its massive, unblinking aluminum eye fixed on the heavens. In a field where size does matter, the Arecibo instrument takes the cake: it is the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope by far. The idea behind SETI@home is to take advantage of the unused processing cycles of personal computers. The way this would work is as follows: an interested computer owner will download free software from SETI@home. Then, when their computer is idle (for example, when you leave your home office to go out for a burger), this software will download a 300 kilobyte chunk of SERENDIP data for analysis. The results of this analysis are ultimately sent back to the SERENDIP team, combined with the crunched data from the many thousands of other SETI@home participants, and used to help in the search for extraterrestrial signals.

Here is a copy of what SETI@Home looks like. You can get the free program from http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/windows.html Their main page is http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/. Take a look at how PUERTO RICO is doing at SETI http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/country_1116.html I am Jorge Diaz JR and should be around #10

Currently the packets take about 30 hours in a Pentium +/- 200,  22 hours in a Pentium II +/- 300, and about 14 hours in a Pentium III +/- 400. Just remember, it works while you sleep and does not affect your usage. While you use it the program can be placed to pause and your computer will remain as fast as it used to be.

I am using the Seti program on a Xeon 1100Mhz computer. My results are on the range of 8-9 hours usually but work slightly higher at night. I am buying a new fan system to try and cool the processor to make it work faster. Come and join Seti and help Puerto Rico raise their current position.