---

This page summarizes the history and current status (as of December 2005) of the Seti@home (S@H) activities going on at the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics IV at the University of Bochum, Germany.
In Februar 2000, when I was doing my Diploma thesis at the Institute, I got permission to use the idle computing time of our Institute's internal network to contribute to S@H. During the last years, the number of installed clients has varied, at times reaching a total of sixty-seven (!) number-crunching little critters. (The current grand total is 46.)
As of November 2005, more more than 112,000 workunits have been completed in 125 years of CPU time, placing our current ranking just within the top #1000 of 5.4 million total users. In May 2000, I joined the team of Area51, which has been leading the University's ranking list since.
With S@H's transition to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), all clients were migrated to the new system before the final shutdown of S@H classic on December 15, 2005. To ensure that no idle CPU time is wasted, selected machines have additionally been attached to Einstein@Home as a second project.

• If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you might want to check out the Seti@home homepage.
• By clicking right here you can have a look at the final statistics of the computations carried out under Seti@Home Classic up until the transition.
• The current statistics of computations since BOINC can be viewed at the respective entry of BOINC Synergy statistics.
• You may view a snapshot of my former Seti@home screen panel (GIF, 170K). (In fact, I have switched from consoles to cronjobs because it was too circumstantial to restart all clients after each reboot.)
• Go to the Area51 homepage, which includes some further information in German (and, I must admit, a _much_ cooler design).
• This link will return you to my homepage at MPS.

(last modified 14-Dec-05 // JK)