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SETI@Home Project Ends
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| 12/16/2005
| Phil Hochmuth, Network World
Posted on 12/17/2005 3:58:48 PM PST by Vermonter
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posted on
12/17/2005 3:58:48 PM PST
by
Vermonter
To: Vermonter
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:00:07 PM PST
by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
To: Vermonter
Are they done, or have they given up?
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:00:16 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Not transferable -- Good only for this trip)
To: RightWhale
What's in the article is all I know
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:00:47 PM PST
by
Vermonter
To: RightWhale
they're switching all the brain power over to the global warming data crunching...
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:01:42 PM PST
by
RobFromGa
(Polls are for people who can't think for themselves.)
To: Vermonter
Interesting... Why can't they let us choose which project gets our extra processing cycles? It seems only fair.
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:01:47 PM PST
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: Vermonter
And why the hell are they sharing column space with Howard Stern?
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:01:55 PM PST
by
Fenris6
(3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
To: systematic
Might be able to pick up some extra CPUs!
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:02:06 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
(It's NOT all about The O)
To: RightWhale
Are they done, or have they given up? "The project is being moved to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), an open-source grid project using the same principles as the original project. BOINC will continue the search for E.T. radio signals, but a new client also allows users to devote spare CPU power for other research projects, such as climate change, astronomy, and curing human diseases."
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:02:23 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: Vermonter
The protein folding program is probably the most beneficial for humanity.
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:03:06 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
To: Vermonter
As Hank said, the project itself lives on as a part of BOINC.
To: RobFromGa
You're serious. Well, there is a lot of uncrunched data. They need some kind of thesis, though, or they'll just end up with more data.
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:04:52 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Not transferable -- Good only for this trip)
To: Fenris6
And why the hell are they sharing column space with Howard Stern? I believe it's because aliens have heard.....
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:05:04 PM PST
by
edpc
To: Fenris6
to generate media, aka you put howard stern in and people are suppose to oohh and ahh... becuase he's a marketing genious...
thats the whoopla behind that
so thats the real question, why did they use his name since, noone but the howy heads cares...
my2c worth
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:05:23 PM PST
by
Flavius
(Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: Vermonter
their software always crashed my system.
For awhile I used my unused clock cyles to find prime numbers.
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:06:52 PM PST
by
birbear
(Admit it. you clicked on the "I have already previewed" button without actually previewing the post.)
To: Vermonter
BOINC will continue the search for E.T. radio signalsSo now we can all BOINC for extra-terrestrial life? Hmmm...
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:07:10 PM PST
by
JRios1968
("Cogito, ergo FReep": I think, therefore I FReep.)
To: bnelson44
Nutten out there folks.Of course there is. Too bad some still see earth as the center of the universe.
To: Jigsaw John
Naw, if there was sumpten you would have heard from them by now. ..... Naw, nutten out there...
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:09:06 PM PST
by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
To: Hank Rearden
There is more astronomical data coming in every day than can be processed in months, and they can process and reprocess the same data over and over whenever they want to look for a specific feature. This ought to be done on a much bigger scale, and it shouldn't depend on whether the grad dept gets some funding.
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:09:22 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Not transferable -- Good only for this trip)
To: Vermonter
I had a PC in this project since 2000. Last year I found that there was a Freeper group in SETI@Home and moved my acct to that group. Oddly enough I stopped running SETI on my PC recently for the first time in ages and now they are folding.
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posted on
12/17/2005 4:09:49 PM PST
by
KillTime
(Western Civilization herself breathes a sigh of relief as President Bush wins 4 more years.)
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