November 27, 2005

Spare time, mister?

Those of you who are SETI contributors probably know this, but it's been consolidated with seven other distributed computing projects at the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. That's one of those names that I suspect was chosen for its acronym, especially when you see its screensaver moving across your screen at all angles.

Anyway, if you've got spare computer time, go there and sign up for one or more of the jobs. Here are your choices:

  • Climateprediction.net: study climate change
  • Einstein@home: search for gravitational signals emitted by pulsars
  • LHC@home: improve the design of the CERN LHC particle accelerator
  • Predictor@home: investigate protein-related diseases
  • Rosetta@home: help researchers develop cures for human diseases
  • SETI@home: Look for radio evidence of extraterrestrial life
  • Cell Computing biomedical research (Japanese; requires nonstandard client software)
  • World Community Grid: advance our knowledge of human disease. (Requires 5.2.1 or greater)

I'm continuing with SETI in hopes that ET will be found during one of my work units, and I signed up for Rosetta as well.

Posted by Linkmeister at November 27, 2005 03:18 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Did you use the previous incarnation of the SETI software? I did and cannot, for the life of me, get credit for my work units with the new client/account. I'd like to not throw away the 1,500 work units already completed...

Posted by: ruminator at November 30, 2005 04:15 AM