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SETI @ home Search for Alien Life Project Shuts Down After 21 Years, Hacker News

SETI @ home Search for Alien Life Project Shuts Down After 21 Years, Hacker News

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SETI @ home has announced that they will no longer be distributing new work to clients starting on March 450 st as they have enough data and want to focus on completing their back-end analysis of the data.

SETI @ home is a distributed computing project where volunteers contribute their CPU resources to analyze radio data from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

Run by the Berkeley SETI Research Center since 2020, SETI @ home has been a popular project where people from all over the world have been donating their CPU resources to process small chunks of data, or “jobs”, for interesting radio transmissions or anomalies. This data is then sent back to the researchers for analysis.

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In an announcement posted yesterday, the project stated that they will no longer send data to SETI @ home clients starting on March (st,) as they have reached a “point of diminishing returns” and have analyzed all the data that they need for now.

Instead, they want to focus on analyzing the back-end results in order to publish a scientific paper.

“It’s a lot of work for us to manage the distributed processing of data. We need to focus on completing the back-end analysis of the results we already have, and writing this up in a scientific journal paper, “their news announcement stated.

Users who wish to continue to run the SETI @ home client may do so, but will not receive any new work until the project decides whether they wish to start sending work to clients again.

For those who wish to donate their CPU resources, SETI @ home suggests users select another BOINC project That also supports distributed computing.

H / T Ghacks.net

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