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SETI@Home Expanding Goals With Sun's Help

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the company-not-large-flaming-object dept.

GabeK writes "The Register is reporting that the SETI@home project is going to be expanding the scope of their project with the help of Sun. Sun is donating a fleet of servers to the SETI@home project for use in its new BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) project. This project will use Sun's new JXTA peer-to-peer protocol for distributed computing, and will add other functions to the project other than looking for little green men. Users will now be able to dedicate slices of their idle time to projects other than SETI, like cancer research and climate mapping." We previously mentioned early word of BOINC a couple of months back.

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  1. Re:ok time to spend some of that karma by JPelorat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No no, no worries - as long as it's a generalising, blanket hatred against Christianity or any other religion, you'll never catch a Flamebait here.

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  2. SSDI ... by peter303 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Same acronymn as SETI, except replace ET with slashdot.

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