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BOINC: Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

This is the successor project to SETI@home, which officially ended on December 15th. According to the article, the distributed-computing power will be used to “continue the search for ET 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.”

Frankly, I’m surprised that more volunteer distributed-computing projects haven’t come about since the advent of SETI@home. It’ll be interesting to see if the final report on SETI@home changes that.

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