"Distributed computing experiment SETI@home will be switched off on December 15 as it becomes part of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC). The BOINC site will allow boffins to build other volunteer computing projects in areas like molecular biology, high-energy physics, and climate change study."
I was psyched about SETI@home when it was first announced, and I'm equally psyched that distributed computing projects are being centralized like this. Already I've downloaded the BOINC client and joined a couple of projects, though SETI seems to be rejecting join requests at the moment. Wondering if I could get all 70 Macs at school running this for me as well...muuhahahaha....
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