SETI public: Interview with Dan Werthimer

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Summary: Searching for intelligent life elsewhere has challenged this generation of scientists in a way previously inconceivable, requiring the processing power of the world's largest supercomputer. This priceless and vast scientific network is closer than one might naively imagine. Connecting millions of home computers to a server in Berkeley, California, has given SETI_at_home Project Scientist, Dan Werthimer, more than a few late nights at his listening station. Astrobiology Magazine listens to one of the world's most attentive listeners.

http://www.astrobio.net/news/article710.html

If jumping 226 national borders isn't challenging enough, moving data back and forth to 4.7 million individual computers is something you have to be a little audacious to even dream about. Most network administrators would wilt at the assignment. For this task at Berkeley, the home server is aptly named "SAGAN", and goes well beyond handling Carl Sagan's hallmark equivalent by having powered 'billions and billions' of jobs.

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