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SETI@home ("SETI at home") is a project of the Berkeley SETI Research Center to analyze radio signals with the aim of searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Until March 2020, it was run as an Internet-based public volunteer computing project that employed the BOINC software platform.
The original SETI client was a non-BOINC software exclusively for SETI@home. It was one of the first volunteer computing projects, and not designed with a high level of security. As a result, some participants in the project attempted to cheat the project to gain "credits", while others submitted entirely falsified work.
BOINC's authors felt doing so posed an unacceptable security risk [citation needed], as well as all of the risks that automatic update procedures have in computing. On Unix, the core client is generally run as a daemon (or occasionally as a cron job). On Windows, BOINC initially was not a Windows service, but an ordinary application.
SETI@home beta, is a hibernating volunteer computing project using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing platform, as a test environment for future SETI@home projects: AstroPulse is a volunteer computing project searching for primordial black holes , pulsars , and ETI .
The Berkeley SETI Research Center also hosts the Breakthrough Listen program, [4] [5] [6] which is a ten-year initiative with $100 million funding begun in July 2015 to actively search for intelligent extraterrestrial communications in the universe, in a substantially expanded way, using resources that had not previously been extensively used for the purpose.
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Its first client was a screensaver, which would run while the computer was not otherwise in use. [164] [165] In 2004, the Pande lab collaborated with David P. Anderson to test a supplemental client on the open-source BOINC framework.