Assist the Ultimate Quest!

SETI@Home is the posterchild for getting peeps involved in scientific research, at least while your screen saver is active. The project started back in 1999 to help explore the huge amount of data (requires teraflop/s of processing power)….the solution posed was a distributed computing concept. After a few attempts, SETI decided upon a background processing client that could be installed on a home computer.

Fast forward to the present, SETI@Home boasts 4 million participants with ~200K active users. All thrilled to be the first to find ET (or they just want to beat the compadres across the world).

So if you’re interested in finding ET (but more likely just watching a pretty screen saver), download the software from SETI@Home and install away.

I installed mine just a couple of month's back. Its really fun to watch those computations taking place on your screen. It kind of makes you feel godd - being a part of something magnificent.

Here's how :

• Go to SETI@home
• Click Download and install the version of Boinc Software for you OS.
• Then just follow the instuctions

Help find ET, assist the ultimate quest.