1999-04-22 01:44:35 +00:00
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SETI@home is a scientific experiment that will harness the power of
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hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for
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Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a
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program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data. There's a
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small but captivating possibility that your computer will detect the
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faint murmur of a civilization beyond Earth.
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This package includes an interactive install script which allows you to
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set up a working directory under /var/db/setiathome, register with or
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log in to SETI@home, and arranges for setiathome to be started at
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system start-up. In this case, setiathome will be executed as user
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`nobody'.
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setiathome will run at nice level 1 by default, with a single process.
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If you are running a SMP system and therefore would like to run one
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process per CPU, or would like setiathome to run under another user ID,
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you have to set it up manually.
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setiathome requires about 0.5 MBytes disk space in its working
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directory, and about 12 MBytes of memory. If you have ample physical
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memory, it's work load should be almost undetectable.
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setiathome is a binary distribution currently available for FreeBSD
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1999-05-06 22:50:25 +00:00
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2.2.6, 2.2.7, 2.2.8, 3.1, and 4.0. Newer versions of FreeBSD should be able
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1999-04-22 01:44:35 +00:00
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to run older binaries.
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WWW: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
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