SETI@Home and other distributed computing projects

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/kaspersky_labs.html

see my paranoid comment there

Wouldn't be surprised if that was the case

Chris, I had thought about this earlier, and just now signed up for SETI. I can see the ILX group, and am logged in, but the 'join this group' link to click on is nowhere to be found. Any idea?

to be fair CA keys are usually 16384

Forget my earlier post, the join link showed up.

All sorts of distributed computing figures for team ILX at BOINCstats

BOINC Cross Project IDentifier: 9a4fd56d1ee7d445d16cfcb4c16b0e0d
Team ID: 165998
URL: www.ilxor.com

Current Credit based on incremental update: 80,998.19
Comprising 80,998.19 from the daily update + 0.00 since then
Link to position in BOINC combined World stats based on incremental update: 38,795 out of 96,035
5: since daily update

Highest World position ever: 27,141 at 2007-12-23

For SETI@Home specifically:

1) Ned Raggett - 51,109 - 0.09 - United States
2) Chris Barrus (Founder) - 33,767 - 13.77 - United States
3) Le Bateau Ivre - 12,546 - 0.07 - Netherlands
4) A.L. - 1,937 - 0.09 - United States
5) teeny - 178 - 0.07 - None

And we're done

Thanks to the many volunteers who have helped crunch data for SETI@home in the last two decades. On March 31, the project will stop sending out new work to users, but this is not the end of public engagement in SETI research. pic.twitter.com/P0t0v8w7n4

— UC Berkeley SETI (@BerkeleySETI) March 3, 2020

Final results

   Name              Total credit     Recent average credit   Country
1) Adam	                  362,748          0.07               Canada
2) Ned Raggett             51,109          0.09               United States
3) Chris Barrus (Founder)  34,140          0.06               United States
4) Le Bateau Ivre          12,546          0.07               Netherlands
5) A.L.                     1,937          0.09               United States
6) teeny                      178          0.07               None

We reached out like a single drop in an ocean of time washing over us. But reach out, we did. RIP.

Aliens got into your machines, read the politics threads and noped on past.

Largest crowd-sourced hunt for alien intelligence reveals 12 billion 'signals of interest' in collapsed Arecibo Observatory data
https://www.livescience.com/space/extraterrestrial-life/scientists-study-100-possible-alien-radio-signals-from-collapsed-arecibo-observatory-ending-groundbreaking-21-year-search

One of the largest searches for alien intelligence in history is nearing completion, thanks to the help of more than 2 million citizen scientists and the legendary Arecibo Observatory.

Launched in 1999, the SETI@Home project enlisted millions of volunteers around the world to help identify unusual radio signals in data from the Arecibo Observatory — a massive radio telescope in Puerto Rico that collapsed in 2020 due to a cable failure. Though the project ended prematurely with the telescope's demise, citizen scientists nonetheless identified more than 12 billion signals of interest in 21 years of data.

Now, the researchers behind the project have narrowed that daunting list down to the top 100 candidate signals, which they are studying in detail with China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) — now the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, following the death of Arecibo.