The University of California's distributed-computing project that searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (Seti) was temporarily knocked offline by a distributed ...

Being middleware, BOINC isn’t nearly as well known as some of the grid computing-based volunteer projects – like SETI@home and Rosetta@home — that exploit it. But the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for ...

Intel has announced a new partnership designed to increase the prominence of volunteer grid computing. Its new Progress Through Processors program will see the chipmaker partner with Facebook and ...

David Anderson wasn't interested in the aliens. He was interested in a worldwide network of computers down here on Earth. Anderson is a computer scientist at the University of California at Berkeley ...

Open question: Does anyone have experience setting up a BOINC project? There are some wonderful guides on the BOINC wiki. But I have a few questions before I go down that route. Some background, I ...

If you've ever wanted to help out with a scientific research project but lack the PhD credentials, there's now a much simpler way: all you need is a decent Android device and a new app called BOINC.

SETI@home, a downloadable screensaver that lets the public donate their unused computer time to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, switches off today. But it is not going away: it is simply ...

Since the launch of SETI@Home, donating spare processing power to scientific efforts has been commonplace. Now researchers are hoping to get people to share a bit of their Android smartphones' and ...

Iyaz Akhtar works tenaciously to make technology work for him so he can live a life of leisure. He's been in the tech sector as a writer, an editor, a producer, and a presenter since 2006. Volunteer ...