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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Fear and trembling by rillopy · 2003-10-09 13:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's a new playground for all the evil in the computing world! Aieeee!
Re:Join G.A.H.!!!! by hendridm · 2003-10-09 14:46 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I can't remember the last time I saw on Slashdot a link to Goatse.cx get modded so high. If there was anyone left who hadn't yet ventured into the bowels of -1 and saw this atrocity, they have now! :)