Astropulse
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Astropulse is a distributed computing project that is (will be) searching for primordial black holes, pulsars, and ETI, using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform.
Astropulse is a project that takes data from the existing SETI@home tapes and re-examines them for radio pulses that lasted only microseconds. This could indicate a pulsar or maybe a signal from an intelligent source deliberately being sent out.
Work on a new Astropulse will start once the SETI enhanced client is in general release. The Southern hemisphere is another SETI project that is due to join BOINC in the future. SETI@home beta is a test environment for these three future projects.
Astropulse was originally slated for release in 2003. Many BOINC users feel that it has become vaporware. Some preliminary test units have been released to SETI@home beta, from 31 January 2007, but the future of the project depends on extended funding to SETI@home.
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