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theSkyNet Project (Non-BOINC)
The first 1000 participants will be listed as founding members.
(NB - I think member numbers actually started at 100000 not at 10000 mentioned in one of the post)
Real awards will be given in the long term, such as personal viewing session at one of the observatories with the project team.
"theSkyNet" is like a non-BOINC version of SETI in that the project client is processing collected signal data.
This introductory article on ZD-Net explains more.
THIN - It has a web-based Java app that runs.
THICK - Download clients are available for Win-32, Win-64 AND MacOS
(no linux clients but I have two browser clients running in a browser on AMD64 Ubuntu 10.04 to see if they make an impression.
The AMD Users alliance (team) has been created
It looks as if the browser-based client is multi-threaded but only to one cpu worth of load.
I suspended the other stuff running on the same machines for a bit but the client continued to only use about 1 CPU's worth across two cores on a 2 core machine.
I will inspect the downloadable thick clients on the weekend and provide feedback, unless anyone else wants to go first
*** No stats export. I doubt there will be, in the short term. ***
Some shallow FAQ
No forum
Early days
I have been computing on 3 clients for a couple of hours but no credits yet
I suspect only the windows 1 will yield anything, but I do see some processing now on the browser based java client on linux. Could be interesting.
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