I am a telecommunications worker in Pennsylvania, USA that likes to crunch to try to make the world a better place. There are so many needs around us it's great to be able to help with a few extra CPU cycles.
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.