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SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC
SeaDour writes "The team at SETI@Home have finally released their highly-anticipated new client software based on the BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) software platform. This new platform promises transparent version upgrades, more efficient work unit distribution, and the ability to seamlessly integrate other distributed computing projects that are also using the BOINC standard. For now, SETI@Home is allowing both the Classic and BOINC clients to run, but eventually they will shut down the Classic data server and force everyone to upgrade. You can read more about the transition here."
welcome our BOINC alien-finding overlords. sorry.
"Scientific progress goes BOINC?"
You know, I'd love to setup a transmitter and inject a signal into the seti data collection dish - you know, a low level non-random mathematically transformed character stream that roughtly translates to "The earthlings will never find us here" or something.
If done right it could be a bigger practical joke than the War of the Worlds broadcast of 1938!
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
Well this is interesting... probably the first time a service provider was required to upgrade software: "You better upgrade if you want us to continue using your cpu cycle service."
The practical implementation of a million monkeys at a million typewriters... ...finding nothing.
Seriously, what has Seti@Home found as of yet?
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
Am I to take that this project will also be dying?
From article: "Will the format of input and output files change? Yes. The new format is XML-like (though not legal XML). " Sorry SETI, the RIAA has long since scared me away from having anything illegal on my PC. :-P
What if we find aliens that are considerably more advanced than us, and teach us of medical advances we wouldn't have found on our own for centuries?
Not that I think that will happen. It's just that we don't know what will result from it - that's the point of doing research, to find out. It doesn't make sense to restrict our areas of inquiry to those with easily imaginable results, when its the results we can't imagine that will really rock our world.
Lost: Sig, white with black letters. No collar. Reward if found!
Score one for the good guys!
How many people use Solaris that aren't familiar with it? It's not like Grandma is gonna come with a shiny new Solaris CD and install it.
Freedom is the freedom to say that 2 + 2 = 4
I have a suspicion that any advanced galatic civilization, realizing the nature of expansionistic species, broadcasts instructions on how to blow yourself up, knowing full well that any sufficiently aggressive species will not be able to resist following the instructions. The tiny note at the end "Do not attempt this on your home planet" just indicates a puckish sense of humor.
what am i gonna do if they don't convert my CPU Time into credits!!! Surely, wouldn't like to see the Total Credits: 0.00 (or near numbers) screen for more than a few days... either they come up with a scheme to let me run my old client, update my CPU time and keep my bragging rights or i free up my cpu from whatever number crunching it is doing at the moment and give some rest to the enclosure fans... and may be boinc is a project concieved and promoted by aliens, transported to us as telepathy in a bid for us to drop our search against them!!!?!!? who knows....
i live on an alternate planet
I am fully qualified to bring peace to the Middle East. What I lack are the nuclear weapons.
Maybe the new BOINC software will allow you to split your computing time between SETI and Folding?
...or maybe merge the two looking for little origami ETs that have the cure for those bad tasting protein shakes...