Distributed Computing "Advances" 160
Quirk writes "NewScientist is reporting on..."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."'It is called the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC). BOINC acts like a software platform that can run a number of screen-saver style applications on top of the PC's own operating system.'"
About Time! (Score:5, Funny)
What happens if we combine the applications? (Score:5, Funny)
First distributed project (Score:5, Funny)
All-time best distributed computing app (Score:5, Funny)
Better than Seti@home and BOINC: Yeti@home [phobe.com].
one big effort (Score:5, Funny)
BOINK (Score:5, Funny)
Boinking aliens and cancer with my computer? Sign me up!
Overuse of "quotation marks" (Score:5, Funny)
Using "quotation marks" in the "wrong places" makes everything you "say" seem "suspicious".. Like you're trying to "pull one over" on the "reader" by insinuating theres a double "meaning" to the "word" in "quotes"..
Hate to be a grammar Nazi, but, the the whole quotation mark thing is a pet peeve.
Cheers,
YAPSFUAS (Score:4, Funny)
Re:About Time! (Score:1, Funny)
Virus maker excuse (Score:5, Funny)
Virii writer: "It wasn't a virus, your honor. It was really a non-permission-based propagation model for a distributed computing application that involved producing the results of decreased uptime and further propagation of the non-permission-based distributed application."
Skeptical (Score:5, Funny)
Wait, Isn't that what MS Operating Systems For? (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory Calvin And Hobbes (Score:4, Funny)
Scientific progress goes 'BOINC'?
Re:BOINK (Score:2, Funny)
I'm looking forward to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Networking GNOME (BOING). Maybe they could get Berke Breathed to design the mascots for it.
What was that? (Score:3, Funny)
STI - Haven't Found Any Yet (Score:4, Funny)
Search For Terrestrial Intelligence [totl.net]
I know I've been struggling... have you found any? Will this help?
Re:About Time! (Score:5, Funny)
Other distributed projects (Score:5, Funny)
Re:About Time! (Score:4, Funny)
Oh god, I sense a new cliched Slashdot joke about to be born. Beowulf cluster overlords profiting in Soviet Russia, step aside!
Re:Overuse of "quotation marks" (Score:3, Funny)
You're absolutely "right", nothing annoys "me" more than overuse of this "technique". I "literally" claw my eyes out everytime someone "misuses" quotes.
Re:I'm afraid this will be the end of my SETI year (Score:2, Funny)
Sounds like Windows Update on the automatic setting. :^)
Curing AIDS, finding aliens, predicting weather... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:seti@home wasnt the first distributed process (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not sure that I can prove this, but I created a distributed client of sorts in 1997.
It was a java applet which ostensibly did some cute" image animation, back when such things were new and fun to write.
What it actually did was download from my server the latest value of PI and try to compute more digits. When the applet was destroyed it submitted its result to the server.
It was fun watching the result get gradually longer and longer with no effort on my part just due to people who were interested in my webpages.
Maybe it should have been advertised, but I took pleasure knowing what was going on ..
Re:Obligatory Calvin And Hobbes (Score:3, Funny)
No, that's part of the BOINC process, you do everything twice to make sure it's right.
SIC@HOME (Score:3, Funny)
A radio tuned to static is used to feed a stream of random data to a soundcard. The data is used to construct an image, and in the incredibly unlikely event that this image matches a predetermined image, you've proven that the universe is infinite! :-)
Don't forget to check out the url of the "What is SIC@HOME?" page.