Seti@Home is a project that donates your computer's idle time to science. It sends data from radio telescopes to your computer for analysis, saving them time and money.
1Go to the SETI@HOME website: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ and download the BOINC software.Ad
2Follow through the installer and enter http://setiathome.berkeley.edu into the installer when prompted.
3The software is installed, but now we need to make it work. Here is what you need to do, by operating system, to get seti@home working on your computer.
- On Windows Vista, the program will attempt to launch at start up but will fail and leave a tray icon saying it blocked some startup programs. Right click the icon when the system boots and click "Run Blocked Startup Programs".
- On Windows XP and earlier there are no special instructions.
- Linux, make sure that the BOINC client is starting up when the system boots. Startup scripts can be edited in /etc/init.d and /etc/rc.d as well as the file /etc/inittab .
We could really use your help!
- This thing is going to consume a lot of memory, so be sure to let it run only in screensaver mode.
- This program has a generic security warning saying that a project member may try to distribute a virus through seti@home. This has never actually happened and is simply a disclaimer.