SETI@home
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| Developer(s) | University Of California, Berkeley |
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| Initial release | May 17, 1999 |
| Stable release |
SETI@home v8：8.00 / December 30, 2015 SETI@home v8 for nVidia and AMD/ATi GPU Card：8.12/ April 23, 2015 |
| Development status | Online |
| Project goal(s) | Discovery of radio evidence of extraterrestrial life |
| Funding | Public funding and private donations |
| Operating system |
Microsoft Windows, Linux, Android, macOS, Solaris, IBM AIX, FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64 Unix, OS/2 Warp, eComStation |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Volunteer computing |
| License | GPL |
| Active users |
 121,780 (January 2015) |
| Total users |
 1,525,050 (January 2015) |
| Website | SETI@home |
SETI@home v8：8.00 / December 30, 2015 SETI@home v8 for nVidia and AMD/ATi GPU Card：8.12/
May 19, 2016
AstroPulse v7：7.00/
October 7, 2014
SETI@home ("SETI at home") is an Internet-based public volunteer computing project employing the BOINC software platform, hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley. Its purpose is to analyze radio signals, searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, and as such is one of many activities undertaken as part of the worldwide SETI effort.
SETI@home was released to the public on May 17, 1999, making it the third large-scale use of distributed computing over the Internet for research purposes, after Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) was launched in 1996 and distributed.net in 1997. Along with MilkyWay@home and Einstein@home, it is the third major computing project of this type that has the investigation of phenomena in interstellar space as its primary purpose.
The two original goals of SETI@home were:
The second of these goals is generally considered to have succeeded completely. The current BOINC environment, a development of the original SETI@home, is providing support for many computationally intensive projects in a wide range of disciplines.
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