• Over 29 million SETI@home results have been sent in by 260,000 UK users.
• The most involved country in the world is the little Pitcairn Islands where nearly 55% of the population are SETI@home users. The UK comes 28th with only 4 in every thousand.
• Antarctica comes in second with 5% of the population but they do have the highest results per user of 1015. (The 259,770 UK users only manage to average 113 each.)
• The average CPU time to complete a work unit is 17 hr 16 min 51.2 sec (as at 17 February 2001).
• Although there are over 3.6 million registered SETI@home users, only about 500,000 are still regularly active. (Where are the other 3 million?)
• Every day the equivalent of 1100 years of CPU time are utilised on SETI@home.
• 73 percent of SETI@home users are actually using their computers at home. These bring in about half the completed workunits.
• The top home user (Jason Sun of Taiwan) has completed 438,494 work units in 474.607 years of CPU time.
• The top work user is still Sun Microsystems (also 1st overall) with an amazing 948,984 work units in 933.658 years of CPU time at 18 April 2002. (They've got loads of spare computers anyway.)
• The top school user is Tony M. Gonce with 404,901 work units in 391.504 years of CPU time at 18 April 2002.
• The top UK users are University of Leeds ISS with 392,973 results (6th Work user), SETI@TC (Truro College) with 223,765 results (6th School user) and The One with 50,648 results (95th in Home users).

The PCF SETI@Home team has been running since August 2000. It originated on the PC Format Forum. It quickly took off and soon, everything was happening. One member registered a domain name, another one built up a site for it, see it at: http://www.pcfseti.co.uk . Everyone also added links to the site from their signatures so that all visitors to the forum could see what was happening. The great breakthrough came when PC Format noticed all this activity and decided to do an article in the magazine in which they described the SETI@Home project, before mentioning the team and the website. The growth of the team was phenomenal and before long, several members joined bringing lots of ready done units with them. In no time at all, we had accomplished over 20 years of CPU processing. As of mid February (under 6 months after the team was created) we reached over 115 years of cpu time.

A dedicated "PCF SETI Team" section was added to the forum and lots of members started chatting about tips, problems and other SETI related news in it. Meantime, the Forums Administrator and PCF Online Editor had also quietly signed up to the team. After a short while, we realised that we were beginning to approach the "Top 200 Club" teams list and decided, to make more of it, to have a race to be the first team to get there with another SETI group. This went on for quite a while with both teams pretty much neck and neck. Finally, after they gained a few new members, we lost the race, but still ploughed into the top 200 anyway and quickly started climbing the list to our current spot at about 120th.

Our next goal is to reach the top 200 teams overall. We should be able to do this by mid 2001 latest. The site is forever expanding and we have a completely new rework of the site on the way. There are member areas with member statistics and milestones at the current site. The team is constantly expanding (600 members to date) and we are still processing just as much as ever. Ultimately, we might make the top 100 overall and then, who knows!

You can see our Tips page at http://www.pcfseti.f2s.com/tips.php3 and information on how to join our team at http://www.pcfseti.f2s.com/how.php3 .
Our Message Board is at http://www.delphi.com/pcformat/ . Hope we can see you there soon.
If you have any comments don't hesitate to mail anybody on the contacts page: http://www.pcfseti.f2s.com/contacts.php3 .

Happy Processing!

Dave!!