Combined home computers reach exaflop levels
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wa8yxm wrote:Lwiddis wrote:
Allow others access to my computers based on this article? No
There was a project S.E.T.I. that did this and has done it for years. It was even featured on an episode of the TV show JAG but the program is in fact real (I know as I was part of it).
now there is danger of someone faking such a program but what SETI did was set you up with a screen saver. a packet of data was downloaded and when your computer went into screensaver mode it worked on it.
so this may well be a legit program
I don't do screen savers any more.
Ditto to all that. I had several computers working on SETI for years.
Caution is definitely called for though. I wouldn’t touch it unless I was VERY sure I knew who I was dealing with and what they were doing.
