SETI
RSS SETIIs this the malware mother of all botnets?
News He said: "The SETI@home network is quite different because the owner has full knowledge of any use of their computer. SETI@home uses a distributed network of computers to decipher signals from an array of radio telescopes, which listen for signals... [12 Sep 2007]
EC pumps cash into grid research
News The most famous grid project to date was the search for alien life run by the Seti@home project. The European Commission has launched 23 new research projects to highlight the power of grid computing to businesses. [19 Sep 2006]
Boffins get £52m computing handout
News The most famous research project of this kind is SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). The Department of Trade and Industry has announced a £52m investment in the next-generation, high-end computing service known as HECToR which will... [31 Mar 2006]
Nasa sends robot to seek for life in the desert
News Nathalie Cabrol, a planetary scientist at Nasa Ames and the SETI Institute, said: "Our goal with this final investigation is to develop a method to create a real-time, 3D topographic 'map' of life at the microscopic level. [11 Aug 2005]
Is office politics killing grid computing?
News Grid computing is much more widespread in businesses than first thought, new research has found, but arguments over who should pay for it could well be stymieing growth in adoption. Analyst house Quocirca's latest Insight report into grid computing... [20 Apr 2005]
Windows for clusters due in autumn
News Cycle harvesting - best exemplified by the SETI@Home project to scour radio telescope signals for extraterrestrial communication - only is useful for about 10 per cent of high-performance technical computing tasks, he added. [04 Mar 2005]
P2P-style VoIP network launched
News There's the notion that people are willing to donate unused technology resources, a la the SETI@home project, which lets people contribute their computers' processing time to the search for extraterrestrials; peer-to-peer networks, through which... [31 Jan 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
Cheat Sheet I suppose you mean SETI@Home - where people around the world contribute their spare computing power to analyse radio telescope signals in the hope of finding some extra terrestrial life. Grid computing. [05 Jan 2005]
Will's Web Watch: How to attack spammers in your sleep
Comment Similar to the SETI screensaver which powers the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, it will combine the processing power of thousands of computers while they sit idle to power the attacks. Plans are afoot to attack spammers, not by... [30 Nov 2004]
Grid gets €52m to become business' next big thing
News In the past, grid computing has been regarded as a way for the tech community to push forward not-for-profit projects that don't have resources to invest in extra computing power - for example, the Seti@home project, which hunts for alien life... [09 Sep 2004]
ET's not calling us, SETI says - not this time
News Reports that a group set up as part of the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI) has detected a radio transmission that it suspects could be a signal from an alien civilisation, have been dismissed by the organisation. [06 Sep 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.07.04
Round-Up Good luck to SETI in its quest to make first contact. Shostak from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in California claims that thanks to the relentless pace of Moore's Law we should learn whether intelligent life exists... [30 Jul 2004]
Hunt for alien life struck by denial-of-service
News The University of California's distributed-computing project that searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (Seti) was temporarily knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Seti requires computer users to download a... [30 Jul 2004]
Alien life will be discovered within next 20 years
News Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in California, has calculated that the rate of improvement of radio telescopes will enable astronomers to detect radio signals from other... [26 Jul 2004]
Grid is "ready for prime time"
News While niche projects such as the SETI project are the most famous instance of grid deployment, Gupta believes take-up will be "right across the board", citing any business which has peaks and troughs in demand and widespread networks of often... [28 May 2004]
