setiathome

[Jude DaShiell]

setiathome is one of a few ongoing distributed computing projects.  The 
goal of this project is to locate extraterestrial communications in space. 
Linux can run software as well as other operating systems to do this work 
once it's downloaded onto your computer.  The software is supposed to do 
its work when the computer is left on line and unused.  If other more 
complex tasks are ongoing then it's supposed to go inactive.  The software 
downloads files from astronomy observatories and then does the analysis on 
what was found in those files then reports the analysis back to another 
site.  I figure others on other worlds have managed to do travel between 
star systems and probably don't even use radio spectrum for communications 
because of the slow speed of communications.  I've got no idea what's 
being used but I also think just on the odd chance we manage to find 
another world with beings at or a little beyond our stage of development 
this project might work.