Mar 04, 2020 12:15:00

'SETI ＠ home' project to search for extraterrestrial life forms by distributed computing has finished sending data to dedicated software, and it is the 21st year of history

The project “ SETI プ ロ ジ ェ ク ト home ”, which explores extraterrestrial life forms using distributed computing, announced that “sufficient data has been collected for analysis”, and since March 31, 2020, software for distributed computing has been We announced that we will stop providing data.

SETI @ home Search for Alien Life Project Shuts Down After 21 Years
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/seti-home-search-for-alien-life-project-shuts-down-after-21-years/

“SETI ＠ home”, which was open to the public in May 1999, is a project that combines “exploration of extraterrestrial life forms” and “ voluntary computing demonstration experiment”. Volunteer computing refers to a social contribution activity of providing extra computing resources on a PC for scientific research, etc., and SETI ＠ home collects radio wave data collected mainly by the Arecibo Observatory and the Green Bank Telescope . We have analyzed using the computational resources provided by volunteers.

According to SETI が home, `` Since we have enough data and want to concentrate on data analysis in the back end, we will send new data to clients (for volunteers to cooperate in distributed processing) after March 31. No '.

A dedicated client used by volunteers to cooperate in distributed processing. After March 31, no data will be sent to this client for analysis.

SETI ＠ home is part of an extraterrestrial intelligent life exploration project by the Institute of Space Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. Since its inception in 1999, it has analyzed mysterious radio waves and anomalous data around the world.

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SETI ＠ home states, 'Managing the distributed processing of data is a daunting task. You need to complete a back-end analysis of the results already obtained and focus on publishing this as a scientific paper.' In the future, it will focus on analyzing the data analyzed by volunteer PCs and publishing papers.

It is unknown at the time of article creation whether the data will no longer be sent to the SETI @ home client temporarily or permanently. However, SETI ＠ home encourages users who want to participate in volunteer computing to participate in another BOINC project , and expects the project to come to an end.

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