Dyyryath
12-22-2003, 02:32 PM
New Scientist is <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994494">running a short article</a> on Berkeley's new DC software, BOINC. Here's a snippet:<br><br><table width="90%" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#63635A" bgcolor="#E7E7E2" align="center"><tr><td style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;">But until now, it has only been possible to subscribe to one of these services at a time. So David Anderson, author of SETI@home, has created a new system that will make it possible to run several distributed computing projects on a single computer, and even let you specify what proportion of the computer's resources is donated to each project.</td.</tr></table><br><br>It's pretty light on details, but an interesting read as it shows how Berkeley's pitching BOINC to the world.