how come ?

DDR-PIII · Oct 16, 2002

Why does it take so long to process a 200kb file? if the computer were encoding a 200MB .wav file it would be done so many times faster.

ThePerfectCore · Oct 16, 2002

I was always under the impression that it was processing the same 340kb or so over and over again, looking for signals on different frequencies.

I'm probably wrong, though.

Greg M · Oct 16, 2002

It's not 'processing' the file that takes time, it's the analysis that is looking for anomalies and possible patterns.

DDR-PIII · Oct 16, 2002

so it just goes over the file a certian amount of times ?

Cuper · Oct 16, 2002

DDR-PIII - Great question!!! I never really thought about why the actual proc. of breaking down the unit and seeking for signals took so much time. Sorry, no input to add just waiting for the Senior members to fill use in

Mictlan · Oct 16, 2002

Before I make a fool of myself telling you exactly what S@H does with all data it collects, I went to the site and managed to get this link. It explain what the screensaver (and by extention the clc) does with each analysis it does.

Click here to know more about all the parts of the screensaver screen.....almost the same info that the clc gets.

papounet · Oct 16, 2002

Hmm,
I would have suggested the background science

newsletter

but there is a nice summary of the process at
Planetary society

The best overview of the full SETI effort is
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/process_page/

and move your mouse around to discover explanation on each step ;-)

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