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SETI@Home's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence comes to an end - gHacks Tech News:
SETI@Home will go into hibernation on March 31, 2020. The distributed computing project was launched in 1999 to analyze data provided by the radio telescope Arecibo in Puerto Rico. Later on, data from the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and Parkes Observatory in Australia were added.
SETI@Home -- SETI stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- broke down the signals into packets which it then distributed to connected computer systems. These computer systems, often operated by volunteers from around the world, would then be used to analyze the data and transfer results back to the project.
[...] The project maintainers at UC Berkeley provide two reasons for the decision:
- The project is "at a point of diminishing returns" as it has "analyzed all the data" that is needed "for now".
- Managing the distributed processing of data is a lot of work and time is required to complete the "back-end analysis of the results" that have been obtained already.
Hibernation means that the project is not disappearing from the face of the earth. The project website and forums remain open and the distributed computing resources of SETI@Home may be used by other scientific research projects to focus on areas such as "cosmology or pulsar research". Seti@Home may start distributing work again if that happens and the project team will make an announcement if a new research project has been found.
Previously:
New Technologies, Strategies Expanding Search for Extraterrestrial Life
(Score: 4, Insightful) by turgid on Tuesday March 03 2020, @09:16PM (4 children)
I've been doing it since 1999 when it was in beta. I heard about it on a BBC Radio 4 programme and emailed them, and they let me know when it would be starting. I joined straight away. I still had a Pentium 100 in those days. Now I have an AMD Ryzen 7 amongst others, and I have a couple of nVidia GPUs in other machines working on it. I even donated cash to them once. I reckon the reason we haven't detected anything yet is because I haven't got around to inventing the warp drive.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday March 03 2020, @09:44PM
Lazy sod. Get on with it already.
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 04 2020, @12:27AM
The galactic joke is on us - the Nurn of Gamma Leonis have limited information backward time transmission capacity, and when they detected Earth's thermonuclear explosions they directed all intelligent EM emissions this side of the central black hole to be stopped for a period of 286 Earth years starting with Sol arrival times in our calendar year of 1907. EM emissions were mostly anachronistic anyway and the intelligent starfaring species of the Milky Way happily complied, having long ago mastered the art of masking of their warp drive and other EM signatures in order to survive the 5 year purge/war (that's cosmic years ~1 billion Earth years) which ended just under one cosmic year ago. Assuming we make it to 2193 without self annihilating our technological capabilities, and that another galactic purge isn't attempted by the Andromedans,the Gaark of Gacrux are planning to start Earth's introduction to advanced technologies then.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 04 2020, @01:54AM
Alright, I can understand that. But, what about the ansible? You've been promising us the ansible for years now! Is it just vaporware?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Webweasel on Wednesday March 04 2020, @12:55PM
2003 for me. I ran a bunch of systems for a long time.
I must have been quite the contributor back in the day, not run it for at least 10 years, but my stats say:
141,756 out of 3,962,879
1,330,453 Cobblestones of computation (1.15 quintillion floating-point operations)
Priyom.org Number stations, Russian Military radio. "You are a bad, bad man. Do you have any other virtues?"-Runaway1956