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Message 1551405 - Posted: 2 Aug 2014, 11:58:18 UTC

Taking the risk of asking one of the obvious and silly questions, but I just wondered how the computing/analyzing rate of the project compares to the incoming data. Are we, meaning all participants together, analyzing less data than we get in or is there more computing power than new data? And if the amount of analyzed data is lower than the new data generated, how much is 'stockpiled' and waiting to get analyzed? Thanks in advance for the answers!
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Message 1551457 - Posted: 2 Aug 2014, 15:03:24 UTC

Not shore if this is still correct but each unit is only 30 sec of data and they record over 1 or 2 million frequency's at a time .They also get data from other sources not just Arecibo . So i believe that even with the modern cruncher's we have now there is still more data to be analyzed than there is computing power as a general rule .
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