OK, here is what I was referring to, Ken. Duplicate "make work" was in fact sent out: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/3309236.html?page=1&c=y A New Step for SETI@home June 29, 2004 | A half million amateur hunters for alien civilizations are currently running the SETI@home software — which uses your computer's idle time to sift through cosmic noise from the Arecibo radio telescope for faint, artificial signals among the stars. Launched five years ago, SETI@home is now broadening its scope to become a platform for other "distributed computing" projects, such as those that use volunteers' computers to crunch data in molecular biology, climate modeling, and mathematics. The new software is named BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. It will give SETI@home itself the flexibility to run additional searches using other radio telescopes and analysis strategies. Current SETI@home users will eventually need to switch to BOINC. The change will also resolve an embarrassment that has dogged SETI@home for all its life: *the project has attracted so many volunteers that most of them are given needless duplicate make-work. *BOINC will steer excess volunteers toward other projects instead. For more about this and all other SETI projects under way worldwide, see "SETI Searches Today" in SkyandTelescope.com's extensive SETI section. On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Ken Warner <killerken@killerken.com> wrote:
Chuck,
I'm sure data that was of interest was probably sent out again for reanalysis, but that doesn't mean it was done just too waste CPU cycles.