"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."
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.
BOINC?
Sounds like a worthy adversary for Austen Powers.