What is SETI@home?
SETI@home is a scientific experiment, based at UC Berkeley, that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.
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Weekly Outage and Initial Catch Up
Every Tuesday morning (Pacific time) we begin a four hour data distribution outage for database and systems maintenance. The upload/download servers will be offline during this time. Afterwards you may experience connectivity issues for several more hours as the servers catch up with demand.
31 Aug 2016, 21:43:54 UTC
New SETI@home donation project on Bitcoin Utopia
We've started a new mining effort on Bitcoin Utopia. If you've got mining equipment and want to help out, please join the effort.
The ~5 bitcoins that were donated last year went primarily to buying replacement hard drives. With the number of drives we have running we lose quite a few over the course of a year. It was nice not to need to dip into cash to replace them.
7 Jan 2017, 0:35:08 UTC
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Problems with centurion
We're having some problems with centurion, the computer holds the Breakthrough Listen data and does our Breakthrough Listen splitting. Correction will probably require an OS upgrade.
Because of this GBT data will be scarce over the weekend.
6 Jan 2017, 20:25:26 UTC
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New Nebula blog
A new blog documents the progress and status of Nebula, the SETI@home back end.
2 Dec 2016, 8:12:59 UTC
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Web site upgrade
We changed the SETI@home web site to use Twitter Bootstrap, a CSS toolkit. This makes the site usable on small displays, and lets us use color schemes developed by other people (this one is called Darkly).
25 Nov 2016, 21:43:52 UTC
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SETI@home Fall 2016 Fundraiser
The SETI@home Fall 2016 fundraiser has begun. If you haven't received your fundraising letter you can find it here.
The abundance of data has made our funding needs a little more demanding this year, so we're hoping you can help us out a bit more.
As always, thanks for running SETI@home
18 Nov 2016, 20:01:08 UTC
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SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.