[NOISE] other distributed searches

Joel Morgan morgan at keilin.helsinki.fi
Tue Aug 20 14:27:21 PDT 1996


Two distributed searches on the net are described in Science (9 August
1996 p. 743).

One is a search for "Mersenne" prime numbers: 
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/justforfun/prime.htm

The other is called SETI at home and apparently going to use idle time on
people's computers (a screen saver) to search for patterns in data from
Arecibo.  The report says the project will be set up by Woody Sullivan
of University of Washington, Seattle and will operate out of a server
in Berkeley.  (I wasn't able to locate any information about this on
the web.)

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