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New Seti@Home Client to be Open to Other Projects

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. Burning Karma by isn't+my+name · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!!

    Oh, . . wait. . . . .

  2. What I would like to know is by coolmacdude · · Score: 0, Redundant

    will it be optimized for SIMD and the other new major processor enhancements like folding and distributed.net have done? A lot of people I know moved on to other projects where they felt their CPU time would be put to better use because of lack of support for this.

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  3. Oh no.. by jsse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    someone shutdown the skynet@HOME before it becomes self-aware...