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SETI@home Becomes Part of BOINC

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the hard-to-choose dept.

Sudoku writes "On December 15th the Seti@home project will stop issuing new work to members and integrate with BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. Once members have moved over to the BOINC client they can divide their computing time between such projects as climate prediction, search for gravitational signals emitted by pulsars and yes, you can still look for the aliens."

2 of 184 comments (clear)

  1. Re:BOINC could be a lot more efficient by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Holy smokes that was boring

  2. What's "SETI@home" mean? by cffrost · · Score: -1, Troll

    See Electricy Tab Increase @ home?
    Saving-Energy-Thwarted Initiative @ home?
    Suckers Expending Terawatt-hours Ignorantly @ home?

    Look at it this way: Probability your slow-ass PC will find an alien? ~0%. Probability your CPU is sucking down its maximum rated wattage? ~100%.

    If you feel a need to use your machines to make a positive, effortless contribution for the greater good, serve up **AA's precious content for free download.

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    Thank you, Edward Snowden.

    "Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan