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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. BOINK? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    is BOINC really the best acronym they could come up with?

    1. Re:BOINK? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You're absolutely right. When you rearrange the letters in "Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing", you get "grep for weekly beefcake pron units trout, court in morn". Much better, don't you think?

  2. Hmm... by iamdrscience · · Score: 5, Funny

    Expanding the scope of SETI@Home, eh? So like SETI@Work, SETI@Car, SETI@Vacation, SETI@LunchBreak and such? Sounds good!

  3. Well, see it from our side.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..we're geeks, this is the only BOINC we're going to get.

  4. Re:Disappointing marketing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes. Yes I agree. You for one should put some clock cycles towards fixing your goddamned grammar.

    Hint #1: Don't spray apostrophes everywhere. Pretend there's a worldwide shortage and use them sparingly.

  5. Scientific progress goes... by Epistax · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Boinc".


    (extremely obvious)

  6. The Sun by Cutriss · · Score: 3, Funny

    Am I the only one who read the title and thought that SETI was somehow using the Sun to pull in weaker transmissions, or maybe using it to threaten some rather anti-social aliens? :P

    Considering that SETI = Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, the context was rather amusing...

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  7. Re:here's a thought by SamSim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why don't we combine this new idea of distributed computing with a P2P network?

    You mean share our music with the aliens?

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  8. How sexist, only little green men?! by hellfire · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm hoping with the upgrades they will start looking for sexy green women.

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