Hi
I am a new user of boinc. It's a very nice idea, I must say, but it would be nice and gratifying to know what exactly my computer does as it works on data. The screensaver shows a lot of frequencies, searches of gaussian, but it seems to me that it's just a screensaver that doesn't represent correctly what it truly computes (gaussians always have the same form, and that would be strange considering the data mostly background space radiation!)
So, in what way are we helping seti? In what way are you making us search for interesting signals? What does our computer do? Dos it really search gaussians and compute fourier transform?
Thanks to everyone!
Mario

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The seti app searches for gaussian, spikes and tripplets in the recorded signals.

There are some interesting articles at the boinc wiki :
http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=The_SETI%40Home_Analysis_Algorithm
http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=FFT
http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=How_SETI%40Home_Works
http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=Screen_Saver_%26_Graphics_Display_-_SETI%40Home
http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=SETI%40Home_FAQ:_The_SETI%40Home_Project

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