SETI
RSS SETIOpen source hack could make mobiles vulnerable to prying ears
News Distributed computing, which has long been used for research and academic purposes, like SETI@home, and which companies have built businesses around, not only solves the technical hurdle to cracking the A5/1 code, but it... [26 Aug 2009]
Cancer, climate change or malaria: Donate your unused power to research
News The non-profit is a gateway to grid computing projects including Seti, the alien intelligence search project, and LHC@home, the grid-computing project to process data from the Large Hadron Collider. Chip company Intel... [05 Aug 2009]
Powering the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
White Paper The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) wanted to increase processing capabilities to keep up with rapid expansion of the SETI@home volunteer program, which constitutes the largest... [01 Jan 2009]
Photos: Searching for extra terrestrial intelligence
Photo The Allen Telescope Array is a joint project between Seti and UC Berkeley's Astronomy department, and it is funded largely by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The ATA, as it's called, is a collection of radio antennas,... [18 Dec 2008]
Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks for Sharing Processor Cycles
White Paper Motivated by the needs and success of projects such as SETI@home and genome@home, they propose an architecture for a sustainable large-scale peer-to-peer environment for distributed cycle sharing among Internet hosts. [03 Dec 2008]
"We'll find ET within two dozen years," says Seti
News A senior Seti astronomer believes advances in computing power could enable the organisation to find extraterrestrial life as early as 2025. That is, he said, if the assumptions of many researchers within the... [12 Nov 2008]
Is this the malware mother of all botnets?
News He said: "The SETI@home network is quite different because the owner has full knowledge of any use of their computer. SETI@home uses a distributed network of computers to decipher signals from an array... [12 Sep 2007]
EC pumps cash into grid research
News The most famous grid project to date was the search for alien life run by the Seti@home project. The European Commission has launched 23 new research projects to highlight the power of grid computing to businesses. [19 Sep 2006]
Boffins get £52m computing handout
News The most famous research project of this kind is SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). The Department of Trade and Industry has announced a £52m investment in the next-generation, high-end computing... [31 Mar 2006]
Nasa sends robot to seek for life in the desert
News Nathalie Cabrol, a planetary scientist at Nasa Ames and the SETI Institute, said: "Our goal with this final investigation is to develop a method to create a real-time, 3D topographic 'map' of life at the microscopic level. [11 Aug 2005]
Is office politics killing grid computing?
News Grid computing is much more widespread in businesses than first thought, new research has found, but arguments over who should pay for it could well be stymieing growth in adoption. Analyst house Quocirca's latest Insight report into... [20 Apr 2005]
Windows for clusters due in autumn
News Cycle harvesting - best exemplified by the SETI@Home project to scour radio telescope signals for extraterrestrial communication - only is useful for about 10 per cent of high-performance technical computing tasks, he... [04 Mar 2005]
P2P-style VoIP network launched
News There's the notion that people are willing to donate unused technology resources, a la the SETI@home project, which lets people contribute their computers' processing time to the search for extraterrestrials;... [31 Jan 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
Cheat Sheet I suppose you mean SETI@Home - where people around the world contribute their spare computing power to analyse radio telescope signals in the hope of finding some extra terrestrial life. Grid computing. [05 Jan 2005]
Will's Web Watch: How to attack spammers in your sleep
Comment Similar to the SETI screensaver which powers the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, it will combine the processing power of thousands of computers while they sit idle to power the attacks. Plans are afoot to... [30 Nov 2004]
