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Big Bang Send message Joined: 7 Jan 10 Posts: 670 Credit: 28,481 RAC: 0 |
Hint... http://www.csiro.au/org/CASS.html (rarified atmospherics) + http://www.atnf.csiro.au/management/ (grass roots) Utilise the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales. The politics of science..."Why is it so?" |
Bryan Wallace Send message Joined: 28 Jul 00 Posts: 22 Credit: 52,559,173 RAC: 0 |
A good point and a very relevant one...the analysis resources could be pooled, which would keep us 'crunchers' very happy and, of course, the now 'sleeping' ATA would get the analysis done for an incredibly small cost. Oh, Angela, when does "lurking", become stalking? lol This is a great idea. I don't know if the Seti Institute would be interested in this, but if so then we could always use more WU's. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
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Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
I bucked up for the individual Team SETI membership after hearing about this. It's a small donation, but every bit helps I suppose. |
Slavac Send message Joined: 27 Apr 11 Posts: 1932 Credit: 17,952,639 RAC: 0 |
I bucked up for the individual Team SETI membership after hearing about this. It's a small donation, but every bit helps I suppose. After reading the NPR comment I hit up SETI@H too. (shivers) |
Eric Korpela Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1382 Credit: 54,506,847 RAC: 60 |
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Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3806 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
The Green Bank data is sure to happen... Excellent. I'd been wondering whether this was still ongoing as hadn't seen any updates since the original notification from Dec. 2010. I guess there's no timeframe yet, but it's good to know it's still planned. |
Eric Korpela Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1382 Credit: 54,506,847 RAC: 60 |
Awesome! Thanks! As Dr Eric Korpela will already be aware, I managed to get a letter printed in todays UK Daily Mail (May 5) reminding people that whilst it is true that the Allen Telescope Array is being mothballed, Seti@Home is continuing the search with data from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. @SETIEric@qoto.org (Mastodon) |
Eric Korpela Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1382 Credit: 54,506,847 RAC: 60 |
The Green Bank data is sure to happen... Andrew Siemion with help from early AstroPulse author Paul Demorest (now at NRAO Green Bank) just finished the software modification necessary for the GUPPI instrument there to write 4 bit/complex sample data at 800 MHz. Data collection will start very soon. As soon as we enter some info into the scheduling software. We're excited! Now it's time to get started on writing a splitter to put that data in something that S@H can handle and run some tests to find what, if any, changes to the S@H application are needed. I'm pointing my finger at Andrew, but thinking that I'll have to do a lot of the header fixup code. @SETIEric@qoto.org (Mastodon) |
Iona Send message Joined: 12 Jul 07 Posts: 790 Credit: 22,438,118 RAC: 0 |
As Dr Eric Korpela will already be aware, I managed to get a letter printed in todays UK Daily Mail (May 5) reminding people that whilst it is true that the Allen Telescope Array is being mothballed, Seti@Home is continuing the search with data from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. Indeed so, Chris. I saw your letter in todays Mail, which made a pleasant change from the usual rants one sees in the paper! Don't take life too seriously, as you'll never come out of it alive! |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
Well done, Chris. As a fellow participant, I thank you. |
aaronh Send message Joined: 27 Oct 99 Posts: 169 Credit: 1,442,686 RAC: 0 |
run some tests to find what, if any, changes to the S@H application are needed. If changes are needed, would they likely be included in v7, or is this further down the road? |
Eric Korpela Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1382 Credit: 54,506,847 RAC: 60 |
Most likely it would be either a "7.5" or we would add it as a separate app if it to difficult to have a unified application. @SETIEric@qoto.org (Mastodon) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31012 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Good news. 1) Take all the notes you been putting in the thread and make a future directions page out of them 2) I'd think the major changes might be on the science database side of the house. I just suppose ET might transmit on the 1.4GHz band on evan years and the 800 MHz band on odd years. Marrying the data is a requirement and think about any future possible data sources when you do that, so it only has to be done once. 3) If there are big changes needed to the crunch side, also think about possible future data streams. [edit]Even if that data source is say an optical search |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3806 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
Andrew Siemion with help from early AstroPulse author Paul Demorest (now at NRAO Green Bank) just finished the software modification necessary for the GUPPI instrument there to write 4 bit/complex sample data at 800 MHz. Data collection will start very soon. As soon as we enter some info into the scheduling software. We're excited! Also excited! Thanks for the detailed reply! Guess I'll be putting that next cruncherbox together for it. :^) |
M5WJF Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 147 Credit: 6,484,657 RAC: 6 |
I'm sure after everyone gets to work tomorrow they might read the thread I started in Cafe SETI on Tax Deductable Donations, as regards United Kingdom Gift Aid Declarations, which includes Gift Aid paid to Overseas Charitable Organisations. It seems quite a few threads always appear to come down to funding, either for a new server, network hardware, or undertaking science, although some people like beer. I have no idea how much is donated from the UK to SETI@home on an annual basis, but getting an extra 25% on top of that figure, for merely undertaking a paperwork exercise would appear to generate the funding everyone desires. Not only that, claims for previous years of UK Donations are also entertained by the UK Inland Revenue. I believe that BOINC and every project currently running under BOINC, if they are a charity in their own right, and have received donations from UK Tax Payers, are all eligible for Gift Aid. Having been involved with a local Scout Group, we've successfully applied for previous years and received payments. The only drawback might be having to send out Gift Aid Declaration Forms to every UK SETI@home volunteer on an annual basis, and then having them returned, and finally submitted to the UK Inland Revenue, but perhaps that isn't such a difficult task done electronically? For more information, read the Tax Deductable? thread on Cafe SETI, since links are provided. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=64386 Hope that helps. |
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