Editing SETI@home (section)

==Statistics==
With over 5.2&nbsp;million participants worldwide, the project was the volunteer computing project with the most participants to date{{when|date=March 2014}}. The original intent of SETI@home was to utilize 50,000–100,000 home computers.<ref name="Sullivan" /> Since its launch on May 17, 1999, the project has logged over two million years of aggregate computing time.{{as of?|date=May 2012}} On September 26, 2001, SETI@home had performed a total of 10<sup>21</sup> [[floating point]] operations. It was acknowledged by the 2008 edition of the ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' as the largest computation in history.<ref>{{cite web | title = Largest Computation | url = http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?id=53519 | work = Guinness World Records | editor = Newport, Stuart | date = 2005<!-- no valid last modified available --> | publisher = HCI Entertainment | access-date = 3 December 2005 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051128165405/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?id=53519 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = November 28, 2005}}</ref> With over 145,000 active computers in the system (1.4&nbsp;million total) in 233 countries, {{As of|2013|06|23|lc=on}}, SETI@home had the ability to compute over 668 [[teraFLOPS]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://boincstats.com/en/stats/0/project/detail |title=SETI@Home Project |publisher=BOINC Stats |access-date=23 June 2013 |archive-date=July 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703143037/http://boincstats.com/en/stats/0/project/detail |url-status=live }}</ref> For comparison, the [[Tianhe-2]] computer, which {{As of|2013|06|23|lc=on}} was the world's [[Top500|fastest]] [[supercomputer]], was able to compute 33.86 [[petaFLOPS]] (approximately 50 times greater).