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SETI@home (also known as SETI@home II, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, the search for extraterrestrial life form) is the successor of the most well-known DC project SETI@home Classic and should differ in essentials from its predecessor. Even today, with a 50% share of all (!) BOINC credits, it is by far the largest BOINC project. The output surpasses the second-ranked World Community Grid by a good 300%.

SETI@home Classic uses the Radio Telescope in Arecibo for about 1/3 of the observed sky, but only on the Northern Hemisphere. For SETI@home II the use of the Parkes Observatory in Australia is planed. It is the largest radio telescope in the southern hemisphere.

Ausführliche Audio-Beschreibung des Projekts: BOINCcast

Project overview

SETI@home
Name	SETI@home
Category	Astrophysik/en
Goal	Find alien signals
Commercial	nein
Homepage	setiathome.berkeley.edu


	This project is conducted in California, USA.

Project status

Project status
Status	active
Begin	June 26th, 2004
End	still active

Project links

Neuigkeiten (RSS-Feed)

Statistics

Wo	Übersicht	Top Teams	Top User
Projekt Home Page		Top Teams	Top User
BOINCstats.com	Übersicht	Top Teams	Top User
BOINCsynergy.com: Der Service wurde eingestellt.
stats.free-dc.org	Übersicht	Top Teams	Top User
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Clients

Operating Systems

	Windows
	Linux
	Linux 64bit
	Android
	Raspberry Pi
	DOS
	MacOS X
	BSD
	Solaris
	CUDA	Only on Windows
	OpenCL
	OpenCL
	Open Source
	Java (OS independent)

Client properties

works also with proxy
program can be executed normally
can be used as screensaver
commandline version available
personal Proxy for work units available
work units can be exchanged also by email
source code is available
can be used offline
checkpoints

Special features of the client

Unlike the client from the predecessor project SETI@home Classic now no longer a highly specialized client program is used but an open framework called BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing).

BOINC denotes the entire infrastructure (i.e., the necessary servers for project operation, creating WUs and calculating statistics) as well as the software, all the typical tasks of Distributed computing projects (distribution of WUs, Validate results, statistics, etc.). The actual client for the project contains only the scientific routines.

This structuring of the software makes it easy and a simple way to support other projects as well. Among other things an additional project called AstroPulse is calculated on this platform. Users can set whether SETI@home or Astropulse or both to be calculated.

WU information

Name	RAM	Duration	Deadline	Disk Space	Download	Upload	Minimal requirements
setiathome_enhanced 5.28	32 MB	bis 14 h (AMDX2 32bit 3,0 GHz)	bis 3 Wochen	MB	MB	MB	{{{mindestanforderung}}} oder besser

Duration is the average computing time needed, having the CPU clocked at the variable.
Deadline is the timespan, within which the Work unit needs to be finished.