Comment by gnarlouse
5 days ago
Didn't seti@home get discontinued because the state of the art of computation progressed in the direction of cloud computing? Is the goal here to distribute the cost burden?
5 days ago
Didn't seti@home get discontinued because the state of the art of computation progressed in the direction of cloud computing? Is the goal here to distribute the cost burden?
You may be right e.g. SETI now requiring more RAM than it found in consumer computers.
Also likely that seti@home was killed due to bandwith cost making it uneconomical[1]. After all they were looking for aliens in the data.
This "gridbach" project is much closer to GIMPS.
[1]: even if seti@home got their server bandwidth for free, they also need to factor in the bandwidth cost of their "home" participants.