Date:  Sat, 11 Oct 2003 08:23:46 -0300
From:  "Mark Dodel" <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Major change coming to SETI at home - OS/2 Users Get BOINC'd


From: "Ralph Cohen" <rpcohenDESPAM at neurotron.com> 

The SETI at home project announced a major change in the project in the very
near future. The following are the two lead paragraphs from the
announcement posted on the site:

==-==-==-==-==
We will soon release a new version of SETI at home, based on BOINC, a
general-purpose platform for distributed computing projects like
SETI at home. Eventually other distributed computing projects (like
Folding at home and ClimatePrediction.net) will also use BOINC, and you'll be
able to share your computer time among projects of your choosing.

BOINC makes it possible for us to release new versions of SETI at home
without requiring you to download and install new software. It will also
let us do new analyses of the SETI at home data, looking for other types of
radio signals (such as short pulses from evaporating black holes). 
==-==-==-==-==

Unfortunately, OS/2 is not among the platforms that will initially be
supported.  You can read much more about the transition and work unit
transfers and other issues at.

 <http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/boinc_transition_plan.html>

Ralph Cohen





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