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Tuesday, Apr 23, 2002

seti sun

"SETI has accomplished this feat of computational drudgery in just three ordinary years — by persuading some 3.5 million people to allow their personal computers to be yoked into a loose-knit skein called SETI@home. While no alien messages have been discovered yet, the project's success in using the Internet to assemble an impromptu grass-roots supercomputer is inspiring other researchers to turn to the masses for problems requiring more computation than they could otherwise afford."

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