seti – An Autonomous Agent / exploring the noosphere Sun, 15 Oct 2017 02:55:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 Zooniverse – Real Science Online /2013/01/zooniverse-real-science-online/ /2013/01/zooniverse-real-science-online/#disqus_thread Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:48:00 +0000 https://anautonomousagent.com/?p=250

Zooniverse allows anyone to participate in scientific studies. For example, there is a project called Seafloor Explorer which allows users to scan pictures of the seafloor looking for animal species and types of ground cover to create a vast library of information. There is a project which asks for help in identifying various explosions on the sun and another which finds exoplanets around stars.

]]> /2013/01/zooniverse-real-science-online/feed/ 0 BOINC /2012/12/boinc/ /2012/12/boinc/#disqus_thread Sun, 30 Dec 2012 04:46:00 +0000 https://anautonomousagent.com/?p=419 When I had a Windows 95 PC back in the late 1990’s I would run the SETI@HOME program. As most people know this is a way to help search for ET. I can not remember exactly but I believe it took at least a day of continuous processing on my IBM Pentium MMX 166 MHz processor to complete one work unit.
About a year ago I rediscovered my childhood urge to find ET and decided to run SETI once more. I discovered that SETI now runs through a program call BOINC. More information on BOINC here.

BOINC, as I understand it, has enormous potential; especially with CUDA. I bought the CUDA enabled GTX 580 to create a monster gaming rig (See post on my gaming computer). When I run SETI, the GTX 580 completes the task in about 7 minutes. Just incredible. My Core 2 Duo laptop took 7 hours.

On BOINC I am apart of the following applications: SETI, GPU Grid, PrimeGrid, MilkyWay@Home, Einstein@HOME, and others.

 

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