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Worldwide Internet-Distributed Computing Project

The seminal Internet distributed computing project, SETI@home, originated at the University of California at Berkeley. SETI stands for the "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence," and the project's focus is to search for radio signal fluctuations that may indicate a sign of intelligent life from space.

Largest Human Computing

SETI@home is the largest, most successful Internet-distributed-computing project to date. Launched in May 1999, to search through signals collected by the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico (the world's largest radio telescope), the project originally received far more terabytes of data every day than its assigned computers could process.  So the project directors turned to volunteers, inviting individuals to download the SETI@home software to donate the idle CPU-processing Recourse on their computers to the project.

After dispatching a backlog of data, SETI@home volunteers began processing current segments of radio signals captured by the telescope. Currently, about 40 gigabytes of data is pulled down daily by the telescope and sent to computers all over the world to be analyzed. The results are sent back through the Internet, and the program then collects a new segment of radio signals for the PC to work on.

Over Two Million People!

the largest number of volunteers for any Internet-distributed-computing project to date have installed the SETI@home software.  This global network of 3 million computers averages about 14 TeraFLOPS, or 14 trillion floating point operations per second, and has garnered over 500,000 years of processing time in the past year and a half. It would normally cost millions of dollars to achieve that type of power on one or even two supercomputers.

The director of the SETI@home project, Dr. David Anderson, is now the Chief Technical Officer of United Devices. At United Devices, he can extend the success he has had with this project to other researchers and to those who also could use more computational power to expand their project scope.

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Kepler Searches for Earth Like Planets

News Alert: NASA'S KEPLER CAPTURES FIRST IMAGES OF PLANET-HUNTING TERRITORY

NASA's Kepler mission took its first images of the universe where they will soon begin hunting for Earth-like planets. A region named 'Cygnus-Lyra' of the Milky Way galaxy is the targeted location. Several images taken at different zoom-levels are available for online viewing at:

KEPLER, A Search for habitable Planets

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