SETI@home processes noise received by the Aricebo space telescope in the hope of finding a signal from an Extraterrestrial intelligence. This noise was divided into 'work units' and distributed to millions of volunteer computers worldwide which processed them. Contributors were ranked by work units completed and also by CPU time spent to give a competitive spirit to the project. SETI@home ('Classic') commenced on the 17th of May 1999. At the time I was working at the Department of Physics and Electronic Engineering at the University of Waikato and I initiated our contribution to the project on the 2nd of June 1999 with official departmental endorsement. We had over 50 machines running it on a number of different Operating Systems. SETI@home ('Classic') sent out the last work unit for processing on the 15th of December 2005 and stopped receiving work units on the 22nd of December 2005. At this point the contributors stats were frozen. SETI@home ('Classic') has now been superceded by a newer version: SETI@home. We were doing very well in the NZ rankings until Weta Digital and others started contributing with massive computing power. I terminated our SETI@home ('Classic') project around the 15th of October 2001 and below were our stats at that point:
- Contributed 49.088 Years of CPU time.
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Processed 36,776 Work Units.
- Ranked 2nd on the .ac.nz
list
- Ranked 4th on the New
Zealand list.
- Ranked 356th on the World
List.
- Ranked in the top 0.011% of all contributors.
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