SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 23, 2004 @09:52AM from the get-your-mind-out-of-the-stellar dept.

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."

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Re:SETI running out of Work-Units? by ibjhb · 2004-06-23 10:03 · Score: 1, Redundant

It would be nice if they could distribute some of the processing power to other applications/projects such as Folding at Home to help them out. Better than wasting the cycles or having machines sit idle...

Searching for Aliens might be cool and all, but there are practical applications this could be used for...