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SETI@Home Project Ends

pcworld.com — Along with the Howard Stern Show, another radio endeavor involving alien life forms is going off the air this week; SETI@Home, a grid supercomputer project for detecting signs of extra terrestrial life from deep space, officially ended December 15.

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  • TigerX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Guys, it's just moved over the BOINC platform...

    Go there: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
  • Wasuregachi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1...and the basic signal detected from the rest of the universe is (drum roll):

    ssssSSSSSSchchchchchkkkksssssSSSSssssSSSSSSchchckkkkkSSSSsssssssSSSS

    Which may or may not tell us something
  • Nothlit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This headline is totally misleading. SETI@home is still alive and well. No digg.
  • mburns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is old news. They have been moving to BOINC for quite a while now. The project isn't over, they just moved to a new network/software framework. No digg.
  • gorillakick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1misleading topic

    let's hope there will be a way to reduce this kind of topic/summary
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Clearly, it's because they found something and are covering it up.
  • rebrad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too bad. I ran SETI on all my computers. I'm not thrilled about the BOINC platform. It seems too political to me and I hate politics.
  • qball15j, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very misleading topic, no Digg...
  • jonohull, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It was actually pcworld that had the bad headline here, and this is old.
  • Bluezdood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is old news
  • plasminojen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0glad to hear it's getting bigger...
  • trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Whell kucing, I am not really supposed to talk about it but they actually did find evidence o
  • kucing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Did they find any aliens?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/051212-10.html better article on the move, with better headline

    Alien search merges with other home projects
    SETI@home is getting a boost in computer power.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I know this is a dupe and old news and flat out wrong... but I'll ask this here...

    Has distributed computing from programs like SETI or BOINC ever actually accomplished anything?
  • DCstewieG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I find it much more logical to run a DC project finding a cure for something. Folding@Home and Grid.org (formerly United Devices) provide a much more noble cause IMO. I'm all for discovering other intelligent beings, but I think we have more pressing issues to deal with. I really wish SETI@Home wasn't "the big one," at least the way I see it.
  • nailerr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0God I hope all that power will go to USE finally.
  • Mach5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1But unlike Howard Stern, SETI didn't suck for the past 3 years. hoo hoo!
  • nwagers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The distributed computing project called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS for short, has had results. It has found several primes as a result of the computing effort. This is where I donate my spare cycles. It is extremely unobtrusive, easy to install and easy on the resources.
  • VelvetoneFusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0apparently it's very hard to write an accurate headline and description about SETI@home, cuz no one seems to be doing it. Maybe we should investigate that.
  • iregretjumping, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And thus ends an era of the Coolest/Ugliest screensaver ever made.
  • mocheeze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too bad nobody mentioned that Howard isn't going off the air, he's moving to Sirius Satellite radio for better pay, no commercials, and no censorship. Clue in.
  • cool4u2view, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yes they did find something... Its called a big huge memory leak and the software has had it since it's initial beta release.
  • BinaryJay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I always believed SETI@Home was a gargantuan waste of effort. It's clear to me that while the idea is novel and positive the methodology used was not working and probably will never work. Time to look at a different solution.
  • TheRealQ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0SO how many aliens did they find with all that supercomputing power ???

    And do the have any decent TV programs, Now Alien TV would have been something to celebrate.

    No loss to me.
  • sirplus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0so, they finally gave up. muuhahahaaa!!
    - zot

    but seriously, distributed computing is a great idea and it will gain relevance as time goes on.
  • tudacee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Kind of sad, maybe it means there IS no intelligent life out there, or worse yet, only intelligence is the low brow one of Howard Stern on Satellite radio....

    sigh.

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