BOINC - upcoming folding/seti/etc client

[su root]

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994494

Software to be launched in January will let PC users run as many "distributed computing" projects as they like. The program will let PC users search for aliens, help predict climate change and perform advanced biological research - all at the same time.

 

[Huckleberry]

Maybe BOINC will bring peace between the seti crunchers and the protein folders.

and maybe not.

 

[MuEagle05]

they should make it a law that you have to do something, either fold, or SAH, etc. LoL, wouldn't that be something. Maybe someday someone will start marketing these projects more, like TV commercials and whatnot, to really get people involved. FAH has less than 300K people running it. There's about 50 million that were affected by Blackout 2003 alone, figure one computer a person, whether at home or work. And that's just in the midwest.

 

[sautegod]

your still not going to catch me wasting my time searching for aliens

 

[MuEagle05]

no, but you cold waste your time folding :-D

 

[sautegod]

it seems like a better cause to me.
we should take care of life here on earth,
before we go looking for it some where else

 

[johan851]

Maybe aliens have the cure for cancer...

 

[OCn00b]

By running BOINC, how many cycles will be taken away from folding? Too many lost cycles is just unacceptable

 

[KaHNZa]

The aliens will approach us when they think we are ready.