Editing SETI@home (section)

==Project future==
There were plans to get data from the [[Parkes Observatory]] in Australia to analyze the southern hemisphere.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/setifuture.html#southern |title=Southern Hemisphere Search – increasing SETI@home's sky coverage in the "Future directions of SETI@home" |publisher=Classic SETI@home website |access-date=23 June 2010 |archive-date=February 19, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219101606/http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/setifuture.html#southern |url-status=live }}</ref> However, {{As of|2018|06|03|lc=on}}, these plans were not mentioned in the project's website. Other plans include a Multi-Beam Data Recorder, a Near Time Persistency Checker and [[Astropulse]] (an application that uses coherent dedispersion to search for pulsed signals).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_plans.php |title=SETI@home Plans |publisher=SETI@home |access-date=23 June 2010 |archive-date=October 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011025755/http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_plans.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Astropulse will team with the original SETI@home to detect other sources, such as rapidly rotating pulsars, exploding primordial black holes, or as-yet unknown astrophysical phenomena.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ap_faq.php |title=Astropulse FAQ |publisher=Setiathome.berkeley.edu |access-date=17 May 2009 |archive-date=April 29, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429072028/http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ap_faq.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Beta testing of the final public release version of Astropulse was completed in July 2008, and the distribution of work units to higher spec machines capable of processing the more CPU intensive work units started in mid-July 2008.

On March 31, 2020, UC Berkeley stopped sending out new data for SETI@Home clients to process, ending the effort for the time being. The program stated they were at a point of "diminishing returns" with the volunteer processing and needed to put the effort into hibernation while they processed the results.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.engadget.com/2020/03/04/seti-home-stops-for-now/ | title = SETI@Home ends its crowdsourced search for alien life after 21 years | first = Daniel | last = Cooper | date = March 4, 2020 | access-date = March 4, 2020 | work = [[Engadget]] | archive-date = March 5, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200305051713/https://www.engadget.com/2020/03/04/seti-home-stops-for-now/ | url-status = live }}</ref>