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[networkman]

Originally posted by: rodThe S@H data you recieve has to be transmitted from arecibo to berkley, where their computers do heaps of pre-processing so it can be distributed. If they were to have another university do this, they would have to re-transmit the data to there, which would increase costs even further.

Actually, the data could be set up to be distributed to another university rather easily and the pre-processing done there, then distributed to clients, based perhaps on geography, such as say the East coast. By doing so, there would be many fewer connections to Berkeley and thus bandwidth costs would drop. It would also make sense in a disaster recovery sense since it's not as likely that one catastrophe like oh, say, an earthquake is going to take out both sites simultaneously.

Originally posted by: rodHowever, when Parkes comes online (the big-ass radio array in Australia), it might be an idea to try to get ANU (The Australian National University) to do S@H work for Parkes.

I'm all for getting more folks involved - the more the merrier.

 

[petrusbroder]

Interesting thought about the team approach - the work would probably go much smoother. I like that idea!
I also wait for Parkes to come on line and for the alternative "seti" to start. But: do we know if that is going to happen? Are there any plans prepared? Would be interesting to know ... :Q

 

[imported_rod]

Well hopefully S@H will distribute some of the workload when Parkes comes online. Does anyone know where to even look for info on something like that???

RoD

 

[imported_rod]

BUMP!

 

[imported_rod]

Well, it looks like this thread is almost dead. One more bump can't hurt...

 

[Assimilator1]

Yep ,Im somewhat surprised that more active SETI users haven't donated ,oh well I hope they have enough & they have better plans for next year.

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