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• Distributive computing spreads out

  - 2004-08-30

  Call it the United Way of Big Science. University of California, Berkeley researchers have launched an Internet computer program that allows those with spare computer time to divide that time among as many so-called "distributive computing" projects as they wish. Want to join the...

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• SETI@home project faces big moment

  - 2003-03-11

  BERKELEY -- In a sense, it's the ultimate long-term bet: finding a transmission from a civilization out there somewhere in the stars, the signal rising and falling in pitch as a distant planet rotates around its lonely sun. But it has been a quest since humans first...

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• University of California Berkeley Reaches Major Milestone in Supercomputing History - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project receives donated supercomputer time - Technology Information

  - 1999-11-01

  The University of California Berkeley's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project, SETI@home, has reported a major milestone in supercomputing history. The project has received more than 100,000 years of computing time from over 1.3 million volunteers in 223 countries, creating the world's largest supercomputing project. The SETI@home Project...

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