I copied this from the news area....all that data...hmmmm time to upgrade again...the wife is going to kill me :) they will collect 170 days worth of data in 24 hours.... HOOLY FRAK...(BSG).... any ideas how we will cut this down to size :)

I asked in another thread if S@H will continue to piggyback on the telescope after the Kepler reobservations are complete but nobody was able to give me an answer. Would you be able to speak on the matter? Is this a one-time thing or is S@H permanently at GBT? Thanks!


We'll just have the 24 hours of total observing time for now (no plans in the near term for more observations beyond that), but we will have collected the same amount of data during these 24 hours as SETI@home collects in 170 days (and which is roughly what the ATA took 2000 days to collect). So that's *plenty* for the time being!

- Matt

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we know about the new telescope from the news and front page and several other postings here

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While we've known about the data coming from the GBT its the scale of the data volume - put it another way, in one day S@H will be getting six month's worth of data collected from Arecibo. That's gong to test the data collection and analysis systems somewhat...

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Bob Smith
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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

While we've known about the data coming from the GBT its the scale of the data volume - put it another way, in one day S@H will be getting six month's worth of data collected from Arecibo. That's gong to test the data collection and analysis systems somewhat...

Well a qualifier would be in order, is that 170 days or data at the current rate we are moving at or by some other factor?

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While we've known about the data coming from the GBT its the scale of the data volume - put it another way, in one day S@H will be getting six month's worth of data collected from Arecibo. That's gong to test the data collection and analysis systems somewhat...

Well a qualifier would be in order, is that 170 days or data at the current rate we are moving at or by some other factor?

I believe it has to do with the recording abilities of the GBT. It can scan many more channels at once, therefore giving us the equivalent of 170 days worth of Arecibo data. Right now each segment of time that is sent to us as a WU, is only 1 of 14 channels, plus the negative sidebands I believe. So for each 107 second block that is sent out, there are actually 28 WU's (each channel plus it's negative). It was mentioned that there will be a second app coming down the pipe after v7 is released, just to process the GBT data. I assume it will be like AP is now, a user selectable add-on.

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I believe it has to do with the recording abilities of the GBT. It can scan many more channels at once, therefore giving us the equivalent of 170 days worth of Arecibo data. Right now each segment of time that is sent to us as a WU, is only 1 of 14 channels, plus the negative sidebands I believe. So for each 107 second block that is sent out, there are actually 28 WU's (each channel plus it's negative). It was mentioned that there will be a second app coming down the pipe after v7 is released, just to process the GBT data. I assume it will be like AP is now, a user selectable add-on.

Ok now that makes sense, so I would imagine that the data being collected there will not be an ongoing thing. For one we don't have the crunching power to get through that fast enough to clear out storage room for them to use, and two they don't have the storage room to begin with!

So can't wait to see what interesting goodies come from this!

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