Of all the numbers crunched, etc..... has anything even remotely interesting come of it?

2nd question: Out of all the BOINC projects one can participate in, are there ones where our processing time TRULY making a difference and if so, which projects?

Thanks,
Mike

The s@h data has been used to map the structure of our galaxy.

The data is also used by e@h to find pulsars.

And our crunching has so far found zero definite positives which is interesting in itself.

Not sure if other unexpected astronomical results have been found.


And we have Boinc as a very important spinoff.

Regardless of the other science and sociology being done, that we are here on these forums and that we are aware of some science is success enough!


Keep searchin'
Martin

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You asked a serious question, and here is the unofficially official serious answer: *shrug* We don't know yet.

We've been crunching data for 15 years now, but haven't had the ability to reasonably process the results of all that crunching. All the results are in a database.. but no meaningful analysis of that data has happened yet.

Some day, we'll have a dedicated machine that can even begin to process some massive queries on the 10+ TB database, but until then, we're only able to just continue collecting data to put into that database.



And most projects are the same way, though some can analyze the results anywhere from near real-time (though without intricate detail... it's a trade-off: if you want fast processing, you have to go with less details, or if you want intricate details, then you have to slow the processing down).

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I should hope if that is the case that the additional monies coming to this endeavor from Breakthrough Initiatives would see that that is corrected. Of course also hope to see less outages, more work, etc.

As each candidate signal location needs to be visited several times over a long period of time and SETI@Home does not have control over the telescope it is very unlikely that enough candidate locations have been visited enough times yet to even identify "probable" locations among all the "vaguely possible" locations.

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