The University of California's distributed-computing project that searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (Seti) was temporarily knocked offline by a distributed ...

Since the launch of SETI@Home, donating spare processing power to scientific efforts has been commonplace. Now researchers are hoping to get people to share a bit of their Android smartphones' and ...

Open question: Does anyone have experience setting up a BOINC project? There are some wonderful guides on the BOINC wiki. But I have a few questions before I go down that route. Some background, I ...

Being middleware, BOINC isn’t nearly as well known as some of the grid computing-based volunteer projects – like SETI@home and Rosetta@home — that exploit it. But the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for ...

Intel has announced a new partnership designed to increase the prominence of volunteer grid computing. Its new Progress Through Processors program will see the chipmaker partner with Facebook and ...

SETI@home, a downloadable screensaver that lets the public donate their unused computer time to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, switches off today. But it is not going away: it is simply ...

David Anderson wasn't interested in the aliens. He was interested in a worldwide network of computers down here on Earth. Anderson is a computer scientist at the University of California at Berkeley ...