SETI@home beta

{{Short description|BOINC based volunteer computing project supporting SETI@home development}}

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SETI@home beta, is a hibernating volunteer computing project using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, as a test environment for future SETI@home projects:

• AstroPulse is a volunteer computing project searching for primordial black holes, pulsars, and ETI. AstroPulse clients have been tested by this project for nearly 6 years.{{Cite web |url=http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/old_news.php |title=SETI@home official site news, AstroPulse first seen on 2 Dec 2005 and first ran on 30 May 2007 |access-date=25 July 2013 |archive-date=21 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521121114/http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/old_news.php |url-status=live }} It is already running on SETI@home, testing new GPU/CPU optimized apps and performing other tasks.
• SETI Southern Hemisphere Search, which is another SETI@home project that was due to join BOINC.{{Cite web |last=Brookheart |first=Johnny |date=2002-09-03 |title=BOINC - Future directions of SETI@home |url=https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2002/09/1516-2/ |access-date=2024-08-29 |website=Ars Technica |language=en-us}} It was expected that this project would use a slightly modified version of the SETI enhanced client, as the Parkes Observatory has a feedhorn with more beams than the Arecibo Observatory.{{cn|date=September 2022}}