Stories about: SETI

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SETI to turn telescopes back on in coming days 09/08/2011 07:47:00

The Allen Telescope Array, funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and used by the SETI Institute to search for extraterrestrial life, should be back up and running in a few days.
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SETI hunt for alien life put on hold 27/04/2011 06:45:00

The US federal and state budget squeeze is affecting life here on Earth - and beyond.
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11 uses for an old PC 30/10/2010 05:16:00

You've finally gone and bought a new PC. It has a boatload of memory, lots of cores, and a fast, modern graphics card. But now your old computer sits in a corner, and although you know it's just a machine, it seems to be sulking like a puppy that missed its morning biscuit. It's weird, but you feel guilty with the whole idea of throwing it out.
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Microsoft new HPC Server adds SETI-like capabilities 21/09/2010 08:35:00

Microsoft today released an updated version of its Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 that can tap into compute resources throughout an enterprise as well as a cloud computing system.
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Ways to share spare CPU cycles 16/08/2010 03:15:00

A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worthy cause.
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ViFiB wants you to host cloud computing at home 15/06/2010 05:11:00

French hosting company ViFiB thinks it can save on expensive data center space by placing its servers in homes and offices with broadband Internet access, putting it somewhere between cloud computing services such as Amazon Web Services and distributed computing projects such as SETI@home.
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Microsoft runs fuzzing botnet, finds 1,800 Office bugs 01/04/2010 06:38:00

Microsoft uncovered more than 1,800 bugs in Office 2010 by tapping into the unused computing horsepower of idling PCs, a company security engineer said today.
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Uproar over E.T. hunter misplaced, SETI@home founder says 07/12/2009 06:58:00

The school superintendent investigating a former employee who ran the SETI@home program on school computers doesn’t understand how the technology works or that the project is well-respected, experts in the technology field say.
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How you can help the LHC and 12 other ways to donate your PC's spare processing power 25/11/2009 12:03:00

Contribute to projects including the LHC, climate forecasting, projects that benefit humanity, target disease cures and more.
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Nvidia closing in on 2 teraflops with graphics card 09/01/2009 01:07:00

In a bid to boost 3D gaming, Nvidia on Thursday announced a graphics card with 480 cores that can crank up performance to reach close to 2 teraflops.
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Fujitsu helps in the search for extraterrestrials 12/11/2008 12:58:11

People have been looking for extraterrestrials for years, but at the University of California, Berkeley, scientists at the SETI project are listening.