What is Seti@murc?

[Sanjuro Makabe]

Firstly, I would like to appologize for being so ignorant. But would anyone be kind enough to please explain to me what this SETI@MURC is all about? I think I know wat the title means, but what do you do? And what is that ladder on the front page updated once in a while?? I really don't get them. please explain. Thanks

[breezer]

Hi Sanjuro,
we're a group of people who crunch seti units and are all members of the murc team.

For information on seti@home look here http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Details of the seti project can be found here http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/learnmore.html

The ladders give individual and team statistics of the units crunched, see http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/team_list.html for further information


Download the seti client and join the murc team, we would all be pleased if you joined us, http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.html

Breezer.

[Pace]

As Breezer says, the SETI@home website contains the main information about Seti itself. SETI @ MURC is a team started by the Matrox Users website (SteveC in particular I believe).

Seti, or the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence at Home to give it it's full title is a science project from the University of x and is, as the name suggests, about finding aliens. Seti (the science group) collect data from space which they split up into managable chunks so that PCs around the world can contribute to their project. The clients (in other words, us) download these work units or Seti WUs, analyse and process them before submitting the result back up to the Seti project. WUs include radio signals from space which the Seti program searches and checks to see if it's possible that a certain pattern was made by intelligent life forms or if it's just random background interference.

When you set up an account and start crunching WUs you get your work progress logged into their server. The news posts you see are compilations of Martin's ('Ees') stats. It's Martin who runs the statistics pages for us MURCers

I run the SETI @ MURC website which has a great guide (by me ) to getting you running Seti with the screensaver version. Click the Seti link in my signature for the site. It also has some good stuff for optimising your system for Seti (as well as general PC speed tips).

Thanks for your interest and it all helps boost the Matrox Users team in the world rankings! Believe it or not but we're in the top 20 worldwide!

Hope to see you on the member list soon,

Paul.

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[AMC]

Just a correction
We're are in Top 20 in Club Teams
In All Teams we are at 36th place

[Sanjuro Makabe]

WOW! this is amazing....

[nehalmistry]

yep, if you join, you will the human race advance (thats if we find something), its not only a competition of who can crunch the most WU's per day (although many people see it as this)

btw, im from vancouver too

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