As I said is anyone helping to look for little green men (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.html) with seti@home ?

Just wondering..........

yeah, I used to... but its been a while since I had it running cus I format my HD quite often and havn't installed it lately..

my stats:
http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/fcgi-bin/fcgi?email=xafier_vampire_prince%40hotmail.com&cmd=user_stats_new

looks like I havn't had it running since September :?

I just thought, maybe we could start up a Sheffield Forum team? :D it's not a bad idea, as everyone here has a PC, otherwise they wouldn't be able to be on here so often :P

If anyone's interested then I'll set one up and make a post explaining it all and everything :)

I've been looking for a while, around 47262 computer hours to be precise.

sounds intriguing - tell me more!

I'm doing a similar thing but with potentially more useful results: http://folding.stanford.edu/

Originally posted by msbehavin
sounds intriguing - tell me more!

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.

Basically its a distributed computation program, they use massive telescopes and satillite dishes (one of which is based in the UK) to collect information about the sky and radio waves that are picked up... then that information is downloaded to the client you run, a small portion of the sky, like 0.5 degrees of a tiny section of the sky... then your computer does analysis on the information to try and find certain things such as spikes (concentrated bursts of radio waves in a certain frequency) and other things such as patters in radio waves...

once your PC has finished with its packet of data, which can take between 2 and 8 hours depending how fast your PC is, it sends the information back... anything that's interesting has been picked up by your PC and informs them, the really interesting areas are then re-examined in more detail to try and figure whether it was radio waves from space or whether it was background noise from the earth

anyways, the program runs in the background on your PC and only uses idle time...

I will repeat this (as its the most asked question) it will ONLY USE IDLE TIME

IDLE TIME is basically any un-used processing power, if your surfing the net and playing some music your PC may be using 5 or 10% of its processing power, meaning 90/95% of it is going to waste every second... this is what SETI@Home uses... any wasted power...

IT WILL NOT SLOW YOUR PC DOWN, YOU WILL NOT NOTICE IT AT ALL. The only time it will technically affect you is when its downloading and sending data, and you will only notice this if your on dailup as its about a 300kb download, and about 100kb upload when its done.

anymore questions? I'll set up a team for Sheffield Forum in a few mins :)

With your help and the help of hundreds of thousands of other computer users like you, we increase the odds of detecting signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. This Help File explains how SETI@home works, how to alter its settings, or how to remove it from your computer.

SETI@home actually consists of two parts: an "application"
and a "screensaver". The application does all the work: it
downloads blocks of data through the Internet, performs the
number crunching on that data (looking for orderly patterns
that might be artificial), returns the results, and gets
another block of data. The application is represented by a
green radio telescope icon in the System Tray (normally at
the lower right of your screen). You can open the applica-
tion window by double-clicking on this icon, or right-clicking
on the icon and selecting Maximize from the popup menu.

We have a Sheffield Forum team now:

http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_193356.html

once you have downloaded the client from the web-site and installed it and created a log-in, click that link above and join the team!

Let's show them what Sheffield can do!! :D

I am your newest member :clap: :clap:

Originally posted by venger
I am your newest member :clap: :clap:

i TRIED ... it just kept telling me that i wasn't a member ... and to go away and try again ... (sighs)

Set up a private account first! Download from here! (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.html)

i believe i am the newest member now!!
:clap:
:wave:

I was doing, but I'm curing cancer (http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2004/12/maths-monkeys-species-and-science.html) now!!

Originally posted by xafier
We have a Sheffield Forum team now:

http://setiathome2.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_193356.html

once you have downloaded the client from the web-site and installed it and created a log-in, click that link above and join the team!

Let's show them what Sheffield can do!! :D

Well thats 3 then :clap:

I've been using SETI@Home for a few years now, so can I join? ;)

I thought i posted yesterday to say that I joined, but now I can't see the post.