WASHINGTON: After Physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced their quest for finding extraterrestrial life, they are now asking to download a smartphone app to help prove the truth in space.
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing app acts as crowd sourcing platform that gives scientist ability to give you power in helping their quest.
“In searches such as this, the more eyes you can get on the prize the better,” Todd Thibodeaux t, CompTIA president, said in a statement.
Alys Woodward, IDC research director, commented that gathering the attention and interest of the public is key for that need crowd source processing.
She added that the major interest of the people in this project would be a great help.
The project for hunting alien life, known as Breakthrough Listen, will use two of the most powerful telescopes on Earth: Green Bank telescope in West Virginia, and the Parkes telescope in New South Wales, Australia.
Before, the data taken per year is around 36 hours from radio telescopes, now the Breakthrough Listen has the capability to record thousands of hours of enormous data. But how would the scientists compute that large amount of information?
The smartphone app will help the scientists to spare the processing power of personal devices all over the world.
The app is only available for android devices, the Iphone users are still have to wait for the development of app for IOS devices.
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