New Seti@Home Client to be Open to Other Projects

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday October 9, 2003 @01:29PM from the time-shares-available dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Seti@home is preparing to make a major change to their client and backend. The new system "boinc" will be a general purpose client and accept work units from other projects (selected by the user). This will open-up Seti@Home's millions strong user base to academic projects that cannot afford supercomputers. As boinc is an open source framework other distributed projects (think!, folding@home etc) will also be able to use it giving boinc a larger installed base than Seti@Home."

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How about this... by Stevyn · 2003-10-09 16:39 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Integrate SETI into KaZaA. People can get free music and find ET at the same time. Think of all those lost CPU cycles wasted on searching for Britney Spears. I just home the government doesn't go knocking on 12 year old's houses because their computer found the location of Elvis floating around in space.