Pioneering distributed computing project SETI@home has announced it’s shutting down “the volunteer computing part” of its search for alien life after more than 20 years. The project will go into ...

After more than 20 years of inviting the public to help in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), the distributed computing project SETI@Home is shutting down. “Scientifically, we’re at ...

SETI@home has announced that they will no longer be distributing new work to clients starting on March 31st as they have enough data and want to focus on completing their back-end analysis of the data ...

It's important to note that folding@home is NOT a BOINC project. Not implying that point should take away from contributing to folding@home if you want, but if you already have BOINC installed, there ...

It's always nice to feel useful, even if not much comes of it in the end. The millions of people who, over the past two decades, donated their home computers' processing power to the SETI@home search ...

Still #110 on team Ars, I crunched a lot of WU back in the day. I switched to F@H for a while, but when I went to Japan the 3rd time about 2007 I lost interest. I haven't ran a distributed client in a ...