SETI@home is an application that allows users to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). It is a scientific experiment that uses volunteers' computers to process and analyze radio telescope data in the search for signals from intelligent life beyond Earth. In essence, SETI@home is a distributed computing project that harnesses the power of thousands of personal computers connected to the internet to form a virtual supercomputer network.
By running the SETI@home software on their computers, users contribute their idle processing power to the analysis of radio signals picked up by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. The software breaks down the data into smaller chunks and sends them to participating computers around the world, where they are analyzed and then sent back to SETI researchers for further study. In this way, millions of users from over 200 countries have donated their computer time since the project's launch in 1999, making it one of the largest and longest-running distributed computing projects in the world.
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