SETI@home 

I started running SETI@home way back in June 1999, shortly after hearing about it from friends. I could type reams about it here, most of which would have to be lifted from the home site itself, so rather than waste your time gabbling on about it, here's the link instead - http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu - you can find out all about it from there.

Over the years I've home-built my PCs using faster components each time, so the speed I run Work Units through has always been better than with the previous machine.

Having racked up a fairly impressive total of Work Units (for a series of homebuilt PCs) I decided to move over to the BOINC SETI@home project. This is essentially the same thing but a subset of a larger Distributed Proccessing network which can utilise your CPU time for various projects.

For the record, my statistics on the original project are available here.

BOINC has various sites, each one for a different DP project, the main site is at http://boinc.berkeley.edu, whilst the SETI@home project I'm participating in is at http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu.

My current statistics are listed to the right, along with other PCs on my home network.

These images are generated at a very well written BOINC Stats Counter site - http://boinc.mundayweb.com. If any of them don't show, please be patient as the site get's a lot of traffic.