SETI@home beta explained

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.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.

Applications Testing

• 11 Dec 2008, CUDA applications test
• 3 Jun 2013, SETI@home v7 test
• 01 Dec 2015 SETI@home v8 test

Notes and References

1. Web site: SETI@home official site news, AstroPulse first seen on 2 Dec 2005 and first ran on 30 May 2007 . 25 July 2013 . 21 May 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130521121114/http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/old_news.php . live .
2. Web site: Brookheart . Johnny . 2002-09-03 . BOINC - Future directions of SETI@home . 2024-08-29 . Ars Technica . en-us.