SETI@home

Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 14:45:20 -0700 (PDT)

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