The SETI@Home group, a distributed computing project to analyze radio signals that could hold signs of extraterrestrial life, announced that its BOINC platform has successfully crossed the 2 billion recorded results.
BOINC, short for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, has been used by the SETI@Home group since 2008 when Nvidia help to enable the technology through its CUDA interface. Support for AMD GPUs was added in 2009.
As one of the largest and oldest still running distributed computing projects, there are currently about 1.2 million registered BOINC SETI@Home participants (155,000 active) in nearly 60,000 teams from 253 countries who currently deliver about 100,000 results per day. The most generous individual users have contributed dozens of millions results to the project. The average performance delivered is about 540 TFlops.
SETI@Home was founded in 1999 and is still launched by its original team members, David Anderson and Dan Wertheimer, who lead the project. No evidence for alien life has been discovered by SETI@Home yet, but there is the prediction that alien contact could be made before 2024.
what does she do, 18+ webcam chat?
what does she do, 18+ webcam chat?
Sorry if offended anyone, what you guys do with your computers is your own business, just saying that it seems a huge waste in general. Unless there are some solid results out of it? Sure 10+ years of work produced something?
Except none of that stuff has ever been proven or evidenced to exist, and SETI has practically proven black holes do not - zero results, son. SETI isn't a waste of time because it's stupid, it's a waste of time because it's a pointless waste of electricity which has produced precisely zero results in any direction. Just like all the NASA fanatics ranting about pseudoscientific "black holes". No se existe, kiddo. Never been evidenced. Pulsars are also merely a deduction - never been evidenced and physically impossible, just like black holes. When you divide by zero, guess what you get?
The burden of proof is on the theorist. When it comes to all that Big Bang mythology, it never even made it to the hypothetical stage. Scientific Method. SETIs complete uselessness and utter lack of any tangible data are simply laughable. Not to mention a modern workstation can handle all the math SETI's every pulled in mere hours, if not minutes...
But hey, it's fun to be "involved", especially when you don't have to actually do anything or think at all.
The project also searches for black holes, Pulsars and more.
I remember using Setidriver to buffer up 50 work units at a time on my dial up
Of course if you're "most people" you don't actually "compute" with your computer. And SETI's a great way to make yourself feel like you did something intelligent, even though it's the weakest possible way to approach detecting life.
The double-layers alone would prevent any incoming signals. If an alien on Jupiter were broadcasting, we'd get jack. It's electricity - not magic.
And you found nothing. Hey, good work. Impressive effort, well worth the reward.
We are not evolved enough to even receive the message if there was ever one. Never mind to communicate back. As for pulsars and black holes leave it to more sophisticated equipment that is n times efficient. Plenty of probes sent for that matter.
Here is some information about what is involved, keep in mind the info is old but still relevant. The data analysis now-days is way enhanced from what is shown in this link. http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/about_seti/about_seti_at_home_4.html
Jack for computational power? It takes about 3 hours to process a 107 second piece of audio at a very narrow frequency range on a core of my computer, and that's with an SSE4 optimized engine.
Think about it.
@edvinasm, seti@home isn't trying to find voices coming from space, but audio patterns that can't be produced naturally. I agree it would probably be impossible to decrypt the audio even if we got hold of a clean recording. Sending a message back might take centuries because of the speed of sound in space.
Well, driving 50,000+ people to a $1Billion+ stadium (talk about money for cancer research instead)to see the Cowboys get hammered is certainly not doing much for CO2 emissions either :-)
But seriously, one of the differences of mankind vs. animals is that we do go invest time and resources into endeavors that seem to be senseless and do not bring immediate results.
Most of the things we enjoy today are the result of this. Cars, Airplanes, Rockets and the Internet to name a few.
I am sure you meant speed of light as there is no 'sound' in space.
Besides, the medical establishment isn't interested in curing cancer when they can kill you with Chemotherapy instead for $10,000 a month. When was the last time they cured anything? How often do they come up with "treatments" of questionable safety and efficacy, with exorbitant prices? I rest my case, BOINC is a much more noble cause.
Might want to do some fact checking here. SETI@Home has been using BOINC since at least 2003.