BOINC - Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

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

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• BOINC
• Berkeley
• Open
• Infrastructure
• for
• Network
• Computing
• SETI
• SETI@home
• enhanced
• multibeam
• astropulse
• grid
• Synergy

[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.

[blobrana]

Quite good.

[SoulIgnitionMusic]

ahhhhh, so we meet again 240p

[LadyBigTruck]

Maquis Forces International has a team for seti@home . If we can help make a difference, we're going to try. :) We think this is a worthwhile cause so we volunteer our computer power to it.

[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

[sbergman27]

It's ironic that the project which launched BOINC is, by far, the least stable on the BOINC network. Projects like Einstein@Home and CPDN get by pretty well, despite their huge server loads. But seti@home's servers are (almost) always down, and they're always asking for money to buy new hardware. What's more, other projects produce results. e.g. E@H has found a new binary pulsar, which S@H has tried to do and failed. Don't waste your time with this project until they get their shit together.

[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.

[SherrieLeaLaird]

Dr. David Anderson should not trust Art Bell.