I started S@H for pure curiosity and thought that it would be fun for a while. I never intended to be doing this as long as I have. But as I was crunching and moving up in the group rankings I started saying "Oh I will leave after I beat that guy". It went on like that for a while. Then I started thinking that hey I believe that ET does exist and that I want to help find him or her or it. So I have kept crunching and look forward to the day that we find ET.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.