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 Ksetiwatch is a monitoring tool for the SETI@home distributed computing project, which searches for signals of extraterrestrial life. Ksetiwatch is written for the K Desktop Environment. 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 tries to provide 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 multiple clients
  • docks in KDE's panel
  • notifies you when new high signals occur
  • displays lists of completed work units
  • fully compatible to SETIWatch/SETILog log files
  • automatic logging of completed work units
  • shows currently processed work units as well as logged WUs on a sky map
  • starts and stops SETI@home clients
  • detailed status display (running, stopped, finished, loading)
  • Gaussian, pulse, and triplet graphs
If you are also interested in SETIWatch/SETILog, you can get more information at http://members.home.com/mloukko/SETI.html.


What is SETI@home?

 To make it short, here is a quote from the SETI@home website:

"SETI@home is a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data. There's a small but captivating possibility that your computer will detect the faint murmur of a civilization beyond Earth. "

For more information, visit the SETI@home website.