SETI@Home Expanding Goals With Sun's Help

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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DRM cracking

[t_allardyce]

How about various DRM and TCPA cracking projects? I'll donate cycles to anyone who wants to publically humiliate Bill Gates, Senitor Fritz (he still around?) or any of the other crack heads that fancy controlling what i do with my own computer in my own home.

Maybe they can give me a spell check too?