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title: "SETI@home beta"
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SETI@home beta, is a hibernating volunteer computing project using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, as a test environment for future SETI@home projects:

AstroPulse is a volunteer computing project searching for primordial black holes, pulsars, and ETI. AstroPulse clients have been tested by this project for nearly 6 years. It is already running on SETI@home, testing new GPU/CPU optimized apps and performing other tasks.
SETI Southern Hemisphere Search, which is another SETI@home project that was due to join BOINC. It was expected that this project would use a slightly modified version of the SETI enhanced client, as the Parkes Observatory has a feedhorn with more beams than the Arecibo Observatory.


== Applications Testing ==
11 Dec 2008, CUDA applications test
3 Jun 2013, SETI@home v7 test
01 Dec 2015 SETI@home v8 test


== External links ==
Official website
SETI@home beta screensaver video on YouTube


== References ==