Is anybody out there?
If you're interested in helping go to http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
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In March 2005 we began using our idle computer power, with the nomenclature ‘Hyperion’, to aid the SETI@Home project run by the University of California in their search for extra-terrestrial intelligence outside Earth. This is part of Radio SETI which uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow bandwidth radio signals from space consisting primarily of noise, which latter has to be differentiated. A virtual supercomputer comprising of large numbers of internet-linked computers was set up towards this purpose in 1995. After problems with our former computer running too hot we dropped our input for a time, then participated again earlier this year. A graph displaying mathematical calculations running at breakneck speed (a fraction of total input) and constantly updating our home statistics has replaced our usual screen saver. We have currently contributed 100.058 Cobblestones of computation (86.45 quadrillion floating-point operations!) to the SETI@Home project. ‘Hyperion’ is currently 128,025th out of 1,570,934 in the world for computer useage on this programme. In July 2005 our highest ever world figure was 56,956.
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