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 SETI@home Astropulse screensaver | |
| Developer(s) | University of California, Berkeley |
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| Initial release | July 2008 (public release) |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Volunteer computing |
| License | GNU GPL[1] |
| Website | setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu |
Astropulse is a volunteer computing project to search for primordial black holes, pulsars, and extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI). Volunteer resources are harnessed through Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. In 1999, the Space Sciences Laboratory launched SETI@home, which would rely on massively parallel computation on desktop computers scattered around the world. SETI@home utilizes recorded data from the Arecibo radio telescope and searches for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space, signifying the presence of extraterrestrial technology. It was soon recognized that this same data might be scoured for other signals of value to the astronomy and physics community.
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