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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:Upgrade time? by MoonFog · · Score: 4, Informative

    From this page:
    Status
    BOINC is under development. The source code and bug-tracking database are available. We are currently conducting a beta test of BOINC using the SETI@home and Astropulse applications. The public release will be announced on the SETI@home web site. Several other distributed computing projects are evaluating BOINC.

    Guess it will be some time yet.

  2. Stuff to read... by BillGodfrey · · Score: 4, Informative
    I wrote this primer on building a distributed computing system a while ago. Looks like it needs updating.

    Bill, shamelessly plugging.

  3. Re:Bandwith? by nicnak · · Score: 4, Informative

    During one of the last times that Berkeley throttled their bandwith the SETI@home project moved to a different hosting location. They are now situated off campus and have their own pipe to the net. The Planetary Society has a good artical about the bandwith problems.