SETI@home killed off ?

Placed in sarcophagus rises again

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27885

By: Nick Farrell

Wednesday 23 November 2005, 07:18

DISTRIBUTED computing experiment SETI@home will be switched off on
December 15 as it becomes part of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for
Network Computing (BOINC).

BOINC has been developed at UC Berkeley as a framework for volunteer
computing projects like SETI@home.

According to a press release, those who are currently using SETI@home are
being asked to visit here for instructions.

The workunit totals of users and teams will be frozen at that point, and
the final totals will be available on the web.

The BOINC site will allow boffins to build other volunteer computing
projects in areas like molecular biology, high-energy physics, and climate
change study.

A spokesSeti said that those who want to keep looking for aliens can do
so, but they will also be able to donate computer time studying climate
change or other BOINC projects.