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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. Just had to say it by Carnildo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Scientific progress goes "BOINC"?

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    "They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.