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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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  2. OMG WHO CARES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am starting to think that seti@home owns a partial stake in slashdot.com

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  4. Disappointing marketing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think it's a shame that it's such a marketing excuse for distributed computing power to claim it's looking for "cancer cure's" when that's just not going to happen, not with the methods their using at the moment. It's giving hope to people that is ill founded really.

    I won'der how many people are letting they're clock cycle's be used for what they think is something to help humanity, and all it is really is an EXPERIMENT.

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  6. JXTA is new? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Come one, the "new" Jxta technology from Sun is more than 2 years old (version 2.2) and as crappy as it can get. I'm talking from my own experience, it's one of those P2P dreams from 2000 or so, that never actually managed to implement things properly.

  7. Midget porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  8. Shame on sun by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They should donate to schools in poor countries.
    SETI is just a waste of money, we won't find anything, it's absurd.
    Millions and millions die of hunger, zillions of children can't access a computer at school and you want to donate computers for this?
    It's disgusting

    1. Re:Shame on sun by Ayaress · · Score: 0, Troll

      Waste of money? An entire project that, in order to survive, has to litterally get people to come and give them free access to their spare clock cycles? I suppose you're either dumb, ill-informed, or just want to piss people off, but you should read up on an issue before developing an opinion. Any issue. For example, SpaceGuard, which looks for earth-crossing asteroids, has the funding and staff roughly equivalent to a small urban McDonalds franchise. SpaceGuard has SETI pwned six ways from sunday for all that, too. SETI is more like a small rural McDonalds franchise that only opens on Friday and Sunday because that's when all the city folk are driving up to their cabins at the lake, but the other five days, nobody ever uses that dirt road. The only way SETI gets anything done is by leeching clock cylcles off of other people. What the fuck can Sun do to stop hunger, poverty, etc? And with Microsoft, Apple, and everybody else giving computers to schools it's really the school's fault if they don't have computers. You can get a million dollar lab of them for free if you whine to the right people.

  9. Re:We shoudl use this project .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i am so fucking stupid. i have sex with dogs.