BOINC is a software system for “volunteer computing”: it lets people donate time on their home computers and smartphones to science research projects. It has been used by about 50 projects in many areas of science, and has run on millions of computers.
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Category Archives: Seti@Home
Aliens
Oooo! After reinstalling SETI in May, I’ve managed to cross the 100k work unit mark. My recent stats are viewable here.
Seti@Home
I’ve given in and installed Seti@Home again, this time dialled back to the point where it is — effectively — indistinguishable from my computers background cpu noise. The Intel GPU instance gave me terrible performance issues on my older MacBook Pro but that can be disabled via the website.
If we have another long hot summer I suspect that I’ll have to suspend running it until temperatures return to normal.