Wayne Brown wrote:
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Boinc has already spawned an impressive amount of other new science already!

Everyone keeps talking about all the "new science" that the new BOINC
client will make possible for SETI, but I haven't yet seen anyone
explain why the new stuff couldn't be put into a SETI Classic client.

[...]


I'm sorry but this stuff isn't posted in mile high letters in your local newspaper or across special episodes of the Simpsons.

Take a look at the s@h site and also at The Planetary Society. If you're keen, there's various reports and papers to follow up. AND then there's the other projects that are actively taking advantage of the Boinc framework to easily and quickly kick start interest and processing into those something like 20 or so other projects.


For the s@h data: The hydrogen density in our galaxy is being mapped, short duration pulsars and start death are soon to be searched, and then there's the Enhanced s@h client that offers TIMES TWO the analysis sensitivity of s@h-classic.


The code for s@h-classic simply cannot support the new variety of science. To try to keep s@h-classic going now would be a futile effort. If you /really/ /wanted/ you could put a wrapper around Boinc-s@h to give it the same GUI as for s@h-classic... It is all open source so it could be done if there was any interest.


How long have you been asleep on this?!

Happy crunchin',
Martin