Pioneering distributed computing project SETI@home has announced it’s shutting down “the volunteer computing part” of its search for alien life after more than 20 years. The project will go into ...

Reports this week out of Arizona about how a public school district IT chief lost his job have put the use of volunteer grid computing efforts in the spotlight. According to the Arizona Republic and ...

Pioneering distributed computing project SETI@home has announced it’s shutting down “the volunteer computing part” of its search for alien life after more than 20 years. The project will go into ...

There are thousands maybe even millions of computers connected to the Internet but most of those are disconnected from each other. While essential for security and privacy, the collective power of ...

It's important to note that folding@home is NOT a BOINC project. Not implying that point should take away from contributing to folding@home if you want, but if you already have BOINC installed, there ...

The University of California, Berkeley has called it quits on the SETI@home project after a 21-year distributed computing effort to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in outer space. The ...

SETI@home has announced that it will no longer be distributing new work to clients starting on March 31st as it has enough data and wants to focus on completing a back-end analysis of it. SETI@home is ...

Planetary Society Salutes Top 10 Teams and Individuals on SETI@home’s 5th Anniversary Five years after The Planetary Society helped launch SETI@home, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence that ...

The world’s largest and longest-running volunteer computing project, SETI@home, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month with 140,000 participants and 235,000 computers powering the search for ...

A tool being offered to IT managers that blocks distributed computing applications should not affect humanitarian and health research projects, according to Oxford University research scientists.

Still #110 on team Ars, I crunched a lot of WU back in the day. I switched to F@H for a while, but when I went to Japan the 3rd time about 2007 I lost interest. I haven't ran a distributed client in a ...