SETI@Home "Classic" Project

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The original SETI@Home research program used the idle computers of individuals and corporations to perform a massive amount of processing of potential signals gathered at a radio telescope in Arecibo Puerto Rico. The dramatic interest in this program started a new class of participation in scientific research, popularly called Distributed Computing. Now people from all over the world had an opportunity to participate in the execution of the research. Other research projects soon followed, and the race was on to capture the formerly "idle" time processing available on all those PCs.

The only thing that made this less than ideal was the fact that each of the research programs had a built-in assumption that it was the only research project that would be running on that PC. This limited the ability of the user to participate in more than one project at a time. The originators of the SETI@Home Project began to design a more flexible way to allow the users to become a Participant in multiple research projects using the BOINC Client Software.

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• Distributed Computing