What are nerds gonna do for a screensaver now that SETI@Home is no more? (Ed.– Guess it’s back to 7 of 9.)So, yeah, SETI@Home closed for business yesterday, which is a bummer as it was the first well-known grassroots grid computing effort in its bid to find E.T. Since its debut in 1999, 2 million years of accumulated CPU time and over 50TB of data were parsed. More than 5 million users have downloaded the software, frustrating net admins worldwide. Heh, heh.Our colleague Phil reports the project will live on, but is moving to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), an open-source grid project.“BOINC will continue the search for E.T. radio signals, but a new client also allows users to devote spare CPU power for other research projects, such as climate change, astronomy and curing human diseases.” Um, should diseases be #1? Related content news analysis FBI/IC3: Vile $5B business e-mail scam continues to breed FBI/IC3 reports over 40,000 worldwide victims and $5 billion in the latest reckoning By Michael Cooney May 08, 2017 5 mins Security news analysis Ultimate geek dream? NASA challenges you to jump on the FORTRAN bandwagon! NASA opens High Performance Fast Computing Challenge By Michael Cooney May 05, 2017 4 mins Government Open Source Enterprise Applications news analysis Fragmented, disorganized IT systems thwart feds ability to track visas DHS OIG says ineffective IT process has contributed to a backlog of more than 1.2 million visa overstay cases. By Michael Cooney May 04, 2017 5 mins Analytics Data Center Security news analysis TSA: “As you can imagine, live anti-tank rounds are strictly prohibited altogether.” TSA finds live anti-tank round in carry-on bag By Michael Cooney Apr 28, 2017 2 mins Security Podcasts Videos Resources Events NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe