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[gofreak]

Inspired by the recent rumblings of a possible signal find, I downloaded SETI@Home again after a long break from it (I know the claim was later shot down, but still..). Is there a GAF group, or was there ever one?

 

[Nos_G]

Yep here goes:

SETI Age

 

[Deleted member 1235]

how much bandwidth does this use? I would be keen but I am capped at home.......

 

[Dan]

I just got around to installing it, and I believe I joined SETI Age. I assume I'll show up on the list at some later point in time.

Cool beans.

 

[Doth Togo]

I use the program and like the feeling that I'm helping out...

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

how much bandwidth does this use? I would be keen but I am capped at home.......

On the whole very little. A single SETI@Home workunit is currently a bit under 400K, and depending on your computer should last some number of hours. Anything at all recent and it will be well under 10. You can find programs like SETIGate which can cache as many workunits as you want at one time, though.

However, they're also working on a complete remake of the basic program, which can cache multiple units on its own. It's called BOINC, and is made to also support other shared processing efforts. However, since I started trying it out about a month ago they've had all sorts of server difficulties with this new one, so just stick with the old program for a while; they're doing the same work.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

cheers, so it's not constantly streaming data back and forwards? it just downloads a file and works on it? what would an average months data transfer be like?

 

[Diablos]

How does SETI@Home work anyway?

 

[The Shadow]

What about a Folding@Home group?

 

[ManaByte]

SETI is a sham. It's like the government's version of santa claus to keep the public from knowing the truth.

 

[Diablos]

No seriously how does it work? It gets the infomation, analyzes it, and compares it to data generated from the same information other users are processing?

 

[teepo]

what this ramble of positive data found.

 

[DopeyFish]

cheers, so it's not constantly streaming data back and forwards? it just downloads a file and works on it? what would an average months data transfer be like?

say on my computer (p4 2.4 ghz), i nail about 1 work unit every 3 hours, imagine that as 400 k up and down. (most likely nowhere near that on the upstream)

so if you hit 8 a day that would be 3.2 megs roughly 100 megs down and probably alot less up a month.

so if you're running a p4 1.4 or something you should hit about 25 megs of bandwidth a month (2 work units a day)

 

[sc0la]

Cool. Just down;oaded SETI@home on my laptop (i don't think they even supported Mac OS when I did which is cool that they do now)

I haven't done the SETI thing in a few years, but back in school I was always running that shit. I will join SATI age later tonight

This thread and the recent "finding" got me excited for it again.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

No seriously how does it work? It gets the infomation, analyzes it, and compares it to data generated from the same information other users are processing?

As far as my layman's understanding having not read an explanation in a long time... they presume that extra-terrestrials would communicate using a certain type of radio signal that works well for transmitting long distances without much distortion. Our computers analyze the many such signals radio telescopes receive, and weed out the ones that act as we'd expect naturally occuring signals to.

 

[DopeyFish]

i recommend you guys use SETI@Home's commandline version if you want to get more workunits done. I was originally doing about 7-10 hours a workunit on the gui version... commandline put that down to about 2 hours 45 minutes

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

what this ramble of positive data found.

Evidently this was a bit overblown, but it was one of those signals that was a bit more unique than the rest.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

SETI is a sham. It's like the government's version of santa claus to keep the public from knowing the truth.

You've been abducted havent you.