Worthwhile Kepler data analysis project
20 Mar 2012 6:15:37 UTC
Topic 196245
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Please consider supporting a cool data analysis project for the Kepler mission. Here is a link to the project on FundaGeek:
http://www.fundageek.com/project/detail/332/Pale-Blue-Dot-project
The project is to buy super-computer time. Every little bit helps.
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Worthwhile Kepler data analysis project
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Why don't they launch a BOINC project instead? At SETI@home a bunch of people is eager to get Kepler data to crunch.
Tullio
That's a fantastic idea. You
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That's a fantastic idea. You should go over and post a suggestion on the project page at FundaGeek. Maybe they don't know how to set up a BOINC project?
There are already two
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There are already two volunteer organizations aiming to crunch Kepler data. One is SETI@home, housed in the Space Sciences Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley and it gets data from Arecibo and Green Bank Radiotelescopes. The other, totally separated and in some competition, is the SETI Institute which gets its data from its own Allen Telescope Array. I crunch data for SETI@home on my Linux box. The GPU User Group at SETI has collected a sizable account of money which allowed it to buy two new servers plus a disk array with 45 disks for SETI@home. People donate their money after having spent other money to equip their workstations with graphic boards, heat exchangers, power supplies etc just to crunch data and gain credits. BOINC, in my opinion, is not only a scientific enterprise but a sociological phenomenon. People spend money to get nothing, besides a feeling of participating.
Tullio
This post may be too late to
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This post may be too late to get noticed; however, I just wanted to note that no one here has mentioned the new and highly interactive SETILive project, part of the Zooniverse of citizen science projects, not BOINC based. Much of the signals data that gets displayed for home users to analyze is Kepler-based, though some is not. As a sociological phenomenon, this project is even more interactive than SETI@home. CHeck it out, it's in the Zooniverse as mentioned. It may not be around much longer though, if the budget crisis does not get resolved, and this would be a terrible shame. Any BIG donors reading this?
http://www.SETILive.org
The Space Sciences Laboratory
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The Space Sciences Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley,home of the SETI@home project, is getting Kepler data from Green Bank Radiotelescope. AFAIK it will be processed using the old SERENDIP code. SETILive is not using any computer, only eyes and minds of volunteers.
Tullio