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Distributed Computing "Advances"
Quirk writes "NewScientist is reporting on..."Software to be launched in January will let PC users run as many "distributed computing" projects as they like. The program will let PC users search for aliens, help predict climate change and perform advanced biological research - all at the same time."'It is called the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC). BOINC acts like a software platform that can run a number of screen-saver style applications on top of the PC's own operating system.'"
Finally, a source for my advanced alien biological climate change program!
Does this mean that now we'll be mapping het the genome of aliens with AIDS?
Goo goo g'joob.
The first project underway in BOINC is to have everybody's machine submit news about BOINC to slashdot, which is so far happening succesfully. This is the first dupe of many.
The first and easily the best known is SETI@home, which since 1999 has enlisted half a million people to analyse data from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, looking for signs of alien life.
Better than Seti@home and BOINC: Yeti@home.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Have you ever thought that the internet is just one giant 'distributed computing' effort to find pr0n?
It's easier to wear the spandex than to do the crunches. --David Lee Roth
Wouldn't it make more sense if they'd chosen a last word beginning with a K?
Boinking aliens and cancer with my computer? Sign me up!
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Using "quotation marks" in the "wrong places" makes everything you "say" seem "suspicious".. Like you're trying to "pull one over" on the "reader" by insinuating theres a double "meaning" to the "word" in "quotes"..
Hate to be a grammar Nazi, but, the the whole quotation mark thing is a pet peeve.
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
Judge: "What do you have to say about the virus you created, young man?"
Virii writer: "It wasn't a virus, your honor. It was really a non-permission-based propagation model for a distributed computing application that involved producing the results of decreased uptime and further propagation of the non-permission-based distributed application."
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
... because we all know that no really good concept in computing has ever come out of Berkeley. ;)
Search For Terrestrial Intelligence
I know I've been struggling... have you found any? Will this help?
I'm sure that spammers will be registering their distributed spam/DDoS zombies real soon. Why sneak the software onto machines when you can get people to sign up for it if you provide fancy ratings and team standings? Throw in some t-shirts and blue pills and they're gold!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I'm not sure that I can prove this, but I created a distributed client of sorts in 1997.
It was a java applet which ostensibly did some cute" image animation, back when such things were new and fun to write.
What it actually did was download from my server the latest value of PI and try to compute more digits. When the applet was destroyed it submitted its result to the server.
It was fun watching the result get gradually longer and longer with no effort on my part just due to people who were interested in my webpages.
Maybe it should have been advertised, but I took pleasure knowing what was going on ..