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Stories · 4

  1. SETI's Anti-Cheating Strategy

    Science · Space · · posted by michael · from the lots-and-lots-of-proctors dept. · 108 comments
    mtDNA writes: "There's an article in the New York Times about the strategies SETI is using to avoid fraudulent reports. One trick they're using is multiple analyses of the same data. Another strategy is the use of "ringer" data, where they send you fake data for which they know the results." One of the researchers has several postscript papers on his home page - Incentives for Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Networks, Uncheatable Distributed Computations, Distributed Computing with Payout. In related news, ProcessTree apparently sent out an email to participants indicating it is closing up shop, so although SETI seems to be chugging along, the idea of distributed computing as a business model is perhaps a bit premature.

  2. ProcessTree Gets Its First (Paying) Client

    Money · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the but-will-they-pay-bettter-than-the-aliens-from-seti? dept. · 82 comments
    myosin writes: "ProcessTree (sell your unused cycles for $$$) will soon announce it has its first paying client. Here's the [preliminary] announcement :) From their site: 'The good news is that as soon as the end of the month, some of the suppliers of ProcessTree will be able to earn money with their computers. The bad news is that this only applies to a limited number of participants that will be hand-picked according to the requirements of the project.'" And joe points out (from that same announcement) that "The job is a quality-of-service monitoring system that allows real-time checking on the performance and availability of Web sites. We will initially start with 25 locations, for each of which we plan to have a number of suppliers to provide a 24/7 coverage from each location. Each such group in a location we call an 'ideal machine.'" However, they prefer to trade shekels only for cycles on your permanently connected Windows-based machines for now, thanks.

  3. SETI@Home -- Running On A PCI Card

    Hardware · Hardware · · posted by timothy · from the also-brews-tea dept. · 264 comments
    levendis writes: "This has got to be the strangest piece of hardware I have ever seen. It's a PCI card with 6 embedded processors and a flash rom containing Linux and the SETI@home client. The manufacturer claims it can process 6 SETI work units in 16 hours, completely independent of the host CPU."

    This is a truly intriguing piece of equipment. I especially liked this bit from the FAQ: "SETI accelerator® uses military surplus components. The chip used on this board was used for target vector calculations in the terrain following radar (TFR) component of the PR-964 Cruise Missile (NATO Codename SAMOWAR)." I wonder whether they could release similar cards adaptable to the emerging pay-for-cycles outfits like ProcessTree. If yes, maybe the card could pay for itself after a while.

  4. Future Of Internet-Based Distributed Computing

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the james-earl-jones dept. · 117 comments
    miss_america writes: "CNN is running an article about how the Internet has fueled distributed/parallel computing. It talks about the limitations, implications and possibilities of internet-based distributed computing. The article highlights UC Berkeley's SETI@home project, Distributed.net, and the ProcessTree Network."