New Seti@Home Client to be Open to Other Projects

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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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suggested use by larry+bagina · 2003-10-09 13:34 · Score: 3, Funny

maybe thye culd use disributed computingto fix all teh speling errors on salshfot!

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1. Re:suggested use by Aadain2001 · 2003-10-09 13:36 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Srory, nto evn al teh comptrs on the owrld clolectde inot a oBewulf cluster culd do taht.
  
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Intelligent life? by LittleBigScript · 2003-10-09 13:37 · Score: 4, Funny

Can I use it to find intelligent life in my apartment complex? The neighbors are keeping me up all night with their parties...
1. Re:Intelligent life? by El · 2003-10-09 13:42 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Would you still be complaining if they invited you?
  
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Re:Let calculate Pi! by ellem · 2003-10-09 13:39 · Score: 2, Funny

You mean more than 3.14?

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Just had to say it by Carnildo · 2003-10-09 13:47 · Score: 5, Funny

Scientific progress goes "BOINC"?

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Is it Skynet yet? by macemoneta · 2003-10-09 13:48 · Score: 2, Funny

How many computers does it take before they finally "wake up"?

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Re:Let calculate Pi! by N7DR · 2003-10-09 13:56 · Score: 3, Funny

It would be interesting to use this to try and find more digits in pi. Maybe we will finally find a repeat.
If by "find a repeat" you mean "find a sequence of digits that repeats itself ad infinitum", or if you mean "a non-negligible sequence of digits that repeats itself at least once", then I'm afraid you'll be out of luck no matter how many times the age of the universe you want to spend looking, since pi is irrational.
The perspicacious will have noticed the sleight of hand covered by the use of "non-negligible". I leave the selection of a more exact phrase as an exercise for the reader (who clearly has plenty of time on his hands, since he's reading slashdot...).
Re:There is only one minor problem... by Gzip+Christ · 2003-10-09 14:14 · Score: 3, Funny

BOINK/BOINC has a totally different meaning in countries outside the US.
Well then, being from the US myself I think we should change the name so as not to give people in the world at large the wrong impression. I propose that we change the name to "SHAG" since the program is like a dense carpet in that many different goals will be interwined.

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Re:Let calculate Pi! by damiena · 2003-10-09 14:15 · Score: 2, Funny

I build my own program that does this. I got the results back, too! It was really fast.

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>Repeat found. The number "1" has been repeated.
Re:Let calculate Pi! by agentZ · 2003-10-09 14:19 · Score: 2, Funny

Trivial!

#define PI 3