BOINC - Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

Dr. David Anderson describes SETI@home, BOINC and Distributed Computing.

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[Setiweb]

Let's keep in mind that BOINC and SETI@home are two different things. BOINC is a software platform. SETI@home is just one of the many projects that runs on BOINC. BOINC is superb in its uses. SETI@home is a poorly run pipe-dream that will never come to fruition. Your CPU/GPU cycles would be much better served crunching one or more of the many different projects that run on BOINC.

[Setiweb]

You can set your preference to only crunch multibeam seti and ignore astropulse.

[AlmightScoop]

SETI stands for 'search for extraterrestrial intelligence'. It trawls through masses of astronomical data looking for patterns that couldn't have been caused by known natural phenomena.

[John Cross]

Thank you!

[squidlyman]

While you speak categorically, we must also keep in mind that this is your personal opinion. Other opinions may vary...

I personally share my CPU within BOINC between SETI others. And why not? If we don't look... we never know what we'll miss.

[kbryancourville]

Please don't waist your time. I ran this on my computers faithfully for 10 years 24-7-365 & got at least 5 hits. & now it's a lot every day. They're being stopped by the bastards that keep everything from coming out. Check this out. ieeTIAPU-MA ( Extraterrestrial Contact with Dr Steven Greer Part 2) & pass the word to stop waisting time for SETI home.

[SoulIgnitionMusic]

ahhhhh, so we meet again 240p

[FirebirdWorks]

@platyproductions It is more worthwhile than SETI, but not necessarily BOINC as a whole. BOINC has rosetta@home, which is just as useful for mankind.

[platyproductions]

folding at home is a lot more worthwhile

[iulian28ti]

finally got it to work

[Lobos222]

Tried it and didnt like it.

I really dont care what I helped,but I wouldnt mind some of my bandwidth and cpu power being used for other stuff than just my torrents because my computer is usually on.

What I wanted was a easy to use, medium settings default and flashy eye candy program that would work in the back ground when I was AFK.

What it felt like was like a installed a vampire that set everything to max, fiddly GUI, crappy eye candy that had optional plug ins that would prevent CPU burn.

[Lobos222]

The official download site seems to be down.