Seti Cruncher wrote:

"John Donson" <harigejan@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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To my knowledge, SETI@home is out of new data completely.  So what
exactly are we running anymore?  Things that have been done 5 or 6
times?  Is there even a point to doing this anymore?  There are

s@h has a vast amount of data recorded at Arecibo, some of which is completely unprocessed. That same data can be reprocessed in different ways to test for different effects. Astropulse is one example. Hydrogen mapping of our galaxy is another.

s@h has been 'suspected' of increasing the number of redundant checks as their tape splitters have lagged behind supplying for an ever increasing demand.

An important aspect behind the development of BOINC is that the users' resource can be shared amongst a number of projects. Should one project get oversubscribed or otherwise not have enough work, the BOINC clients automatically take on work for the next project with work still to do. Old data is then never needlessly reworked.


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Looks like most of the Data is at least a year old, but true scientific due
process requires that the data be verified by being analysed multiple times.

There's still data from 1999 not looked at yet. Whatever data tapes are 'to hand' or are otherwise deemed interesting get split and distributed.

The last directed search at Arecibo used the results for the first half of the data that s@h has amassed. There's lots more to do.

Is there any point in it anymore?  As long as SETI Classic is around I'll
continue crunching Once its dead, I'll make a decision regarding Boinic.
Until then I'm happily crunching.

Things get ever more exciting with BOINC for all the different clients that can be easily supported.

There's also many more data sources to come online with 's@h' type projects collecting data at Parkes, The Allan Array and revamping at Arecibo.


Considering the server task to support us all, and the hardware and systems problems Berkeley have suffered, they've made some very good rapid progress.


All good fun,
Martin