SETI@Home Expanding Goals With Sun's Help

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday December 18, 2003 @12:21AM 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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Hmm... by iamdrscience · 2003-12-18 00:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Expanding the scope of SETI@Home, eh? So like SETI@Work, SETI@Car, SETI@Vacation, SETI@LunchBreak and such? Sounds good!
Well, see it from our side.. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-18 00:31 · Score: 5, Funny

..we're geeks, this is the only BOINC we're going to get.
Re:here's a thought by SamSim · 2003-12-18 01:14 · 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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