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As over 4.5 million other people, I'm running a SETI@home-client on my computer.
 
As over 4.5 million other people, I'm running a SETI@home-client on my computer.
  
I used to run the client 365/24 on my desktop-PC at the MPI Dortmund as a background-job under Linux and accumulated a total of 2.956 years of computing time.
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I used to run the client 24/7 on my desktop-PC at the [[PhD|MPI Dortmund]] as a background-job under [[Linux]] and accumulated a total of 2.956 years of computing time (on the old client).
  
 
Absolutely not impressive, if you compare this to other peoples numbers, but...
 
Absolutely not impressive, if you compare this to other peoples numbers, but...
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[http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/Candidates/user_list/users/978695.html  Have a look!]
 
[http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/Candidates/user_list/users/978695.html  Have a look!]
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P.S: The site seems to be down nowadays.

Revision as of 22:49, 17 July 2014

As over 4.5 million other people, I'm running a SETI@home-client on my computer.

I used to run the client 24/7 on my desktop-PC at the MPI Dortmund as a background-job under Linux and accumulated a total of 2.956 years of computing time (on the old client).

Absolutely not impressive, if you compare this to other peoples numbers, but...

Most incredibly, I was one of approximately 7000 people who processed a data package with some sort of recurring signal, which has been selected for re-observation by the project-leaders.

Addendum: Because no aliens tried to phone me in the meantime, I assume, that my candidate signal was sorted out on reobservation.

Have a look! P.S: The site seems to be down nowadays.