| Subject: Re: Astropulse and BOINC |
| From: "Mike Bader" <mdbader@flash.net> |
| Date: 23/05/2004, 14:13 |
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/boinc_transition_plan.html
Why is SETI@home switching to BOINC?
Several reasons:
BOINC transparently and securely downloads new application versions. This
lets us upgrade and extend SETI@home without requiring you to download and
install new software. It will make it easy for us to integrate new
algorithms, such as analyzing our 8 bit/sample reobservation data, or
looking for other types of radio signals such as short pulses from
evaporating black holes.
BOINC has a more flexible data architecture than SETI@home Classic. Data can
be transferred to and from multiple servers, and can remain resident on PC
disks. In the future, we'll use these capabilities to search for ET signals
in a much larger radio frequency range.
BOINC distributes work based on host parameters. Work units requiring 512 MB
of RAM, for example, will only be sent to hosts having at least that much
RAM. This lets us use BOINC for a wider range of computations than the "one
size fits all" SETI@home Classic.
Eventually other distributed computing projects (like Folding@home and
ClimatePrediction.net) will also use BOINC, and you'll be able to share your
computer time among projects of your choosing.