Ksetiwatch is a monitoring tool for the SETI@home distributed computing project, which searches for signals of extraterrestrial life. It circumvents the most annoying feature of text-based SETI@home clients: the lack of information about the state of the client(s), the progress of data crunching, the work units currently being processed, and about already completed work units.
Ksetiwatch provides the same look-and-feel of the popular SETIWatch program, written for the Windows95/98/NT platforms by Mark Loukko. It shares many of the features offered by SETIWatch, and provides some other. The highlights are:
monitors as many clients as you want,
docks into KDE's panel,
notifies you when new high signals occur,
automatically logs the results of completed work units,
automatically logs all interesting signals returned to the SETI@home server, including their profile for a graphical representation,
displays lists of completed work units and interesting signals,
is fully compatible to SETIWatch/SETILog log files,
shows currently processed work units as well as logged WUs on a sky map,
starts and stops SETI@home clients; clients can be run with configurable settings,
offers detailed status display (running, stopped, finished, loading),
shows Gaussian, pulse, and triplet graphs.