About The SETI@home Screensaver
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Story by Ron Hipschman
The SETI@home screen saver is a complicated piece of scientific analytical software. It performs a large set of mathematical operations on the data that you are downloading from the Berkeley SETI program. What you see on the screen gives you only a glimpse of what is happening inside your computer. The SETI@home screensaver display is broken into four main sections: