SETI@home

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sun Apr 18 1999 - 15:45:20 MDT


I'm crunching http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ right now. Their
premises about the shape of alien signals are questionable, but it
definitely looks more worthwhile than brute-force cryptoattack a la
distributed.net. The Linux code is nice, but it hogs about 10 MBytes
of core. (There is a crontab option to run it during idle hours,
though). The rest of the world can run it as a screenblanker.

'gene



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