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Australians Look To SkyNet For SKA Telescope

Posted by timothy on from the well-they're-actually-looking-down dept.

angry tapir writes "Key players behind the Australian-New Zealand joint bid to host the $2.1 billion Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will launch a grid Cloud computing initiative by September with the aim of harvesting the computing and storage power of desktops worldwide."

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  1. BOINC by Arador+Aristata · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "harvesting the computing and storage power of desktops worldwide." Oh cool, you mean like BOINC has been doing for ages......