Post by Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe on Nov 24, 2005 0:59:17 GMT -6
SETI@home killed off
SETI@home Becomes Part of BOINC
Computing experiment SETI@home will be switched off on December 15 as it becomes part of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC).
BOINC has been developed at UC Berkeley as a framework for volunteer computing projects like SETI@home.
According to a press release, those who are currently using SETI@home are being asked to visit here for instructions.
The workunit totals of users and teams will be frozen at that point, and the final totals will be available on the web.
The BOINC site will allow boffins to build other volunteer computing projects in areas like molecular biology, high-energy physics, and climate change study.
A spokesperson said that those who want to keep looking for aliens can do so, but they will also be able to donate computer time studying climate change or other BOINC projects.
Story here: theinquirer.net/?article=27885
Seti site here: setiathome.berkeley.edu/
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Well, I guess this couldn't last forever, but I'm glad the average person could participate in searching the heavens for intelligent signals.
I remember when it was first announced in the 90's, I signed up as a searcher. But it took too many of my computer cycles and slowed it down incredibly, as I has a 200mhz machine at the time.
Quite cool really...
