Seti @ Home

SETI@home ("SETI at home") is a distributed computing project using Internet-connected computers, hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. SETI is an acronym for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. SETI@home was released to the public on May 17, 1999.

The goal of SETI@home is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. SETI@home searches for possible evidence of radio transmissions from extraterrestrial intelligence using data from the Arecibo radio telescope. The software searches for four signals:

• Spikes in power spectra
• Gaussian rises and falls in transmission power, possibly representing the telescope beam's main lobe passing over a radio source
• Triplets — three power spikes in a row
• Pulsing signals that possibly represent a narrow band digital-style transmission

Seti @ Home

We currently run this on our raid server.