New Seti@Home Client to be Open to Other Projects

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."

Comments

Other Projects.

[gfburn]

Yeah but what could be more important than processing endless amounts of data on seemingly empty space?

Imagine wasting time on something stupid like a cure for some disease, or ending global warming.

this guy is as openminded as openassed

[Aloctus]

lol if you read this you have been owned by goatse.cx lol

Re:I think theres better distributed computing cau

[cgranade]

Put on your tinfoil hats, kids! It's time for another of cgranade's paranoid rants!
<rant>

OK, call me paranoid, but I wont support folding@Home for two main reasons: first, I don't like the Pandora's box that's opened by that level of tampering with genetics. Look at the DMCA crap that's going on, and ask yourself if we're ready for this. I say, hell no. Which brings me to my second reason: who owns the results? I'm not going to "donate" my spare CPU cycles to some monolithic corporation that will use it to screw over consumers everywhere. That's just f***ing stupid... so until these two issues are resolved, I won't support folding. I will support ClimatePrediction.net, tho, since that's too critical to be concerned with money. I would love to use BOINC if I could selectively include/exclude projects, such as folding, which tick me off or rub me wrong in some way.

</rant>

Re:Authentification

[Disevidence]

You are truly a fucking tool. Welcome to my foes/ignore list, cocksucker.