SETI@home in 2016-Progress, Plans and a Deluge of Data

Paper number

IAC-16,A4,1,4,x33019

Coauthor

Dr. Eric Korpela, University of California, United States

Coauthor

Mr. Jeff Cobb, University of California, United States

Coauthor

Mr. Matt Lebofsky, United States

Coauthor

Dr. David P. Anderson, University of California, United States

Coauthor

Mr. Kevin Luong, United States

Coauthor

Dr. Andrew Siemion, University of California / ASTRON / Radboud University, United States

Coauthor

Dr. Dan Werthimer, University of California, United States

Year

2016

Abstract

Since it's public release in 1999, the capabilities of SETI@home have grown rapidly.  The continuation of Moores law has led to personal computers more one thousand times faster than those available in 1999, with graphics processing units that can provide processing speeds only seen on supercomputers in the last
century.  The capabilities of the SETI@home software have increased to better utilize the available processing power.  Increases in radio astronomy instrumentation technologies have also led to improvements in the potential data sources for SETI@home.  The Breakthrough Listen project promises to increase the data available to SETI@home by orders of magnitude.  I will describe the evolution of SETI@home, and how it will change in the future to better match the available technologies, in
the data sources, the data processing techniques, and the candidate identification process.

Abstract document

IAC-16,A4,1,4,x33019.brief.pdf

Manuscript document

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