"We designed BOINC to let us do the things that we want to do in the future," Anderson says, including rolling out faster and more complex software. The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform will allow to evolve, using data beamed directly from different telescopes, including ones in the Southern Hemisphere, and looking at a wider radiofrequency range. We are just rescanning the sky repeatedly and it's unlikely that we will find anything we haven't found before." Scientific progress goes BOINC "The science that does is currently a dead end it was meant to run for two years, it has now run for six. It breaks up radio signals from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico and sends these to the computers of 5.5 million volunteers, each of which analyses a small chunk of data and sends back the results.īut the project, says director David Anderson, has run out of steam and needs to take a new direction. As a result, each project should get access to more users, more of the launched in May 1999, looks for regular or strong signals from outer space. The move should boost the number of users, upping the computing power available to search for messages from alien life.Ībout a dozen projects are now signed up to a common software system, so that they can pool volunteers' computer time and use it more efficiently (see ' All for one'). But it is not going away: it is simply joining forces with similar distributed-computing projects on topics from climate models to cures for diseases. © a downloadable screensaver that lets the public donate their unused computer time to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, switches off today. Are we alone? The search for alien life has joined up with other projects to boost its computing power.
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