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Re:SETI@home is in hiberation by gamer191 on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:35AM (#46704814)
Well it led to the creation of BOINC, a distributed computing system that probably has led to scientific advances in other fields

So I wouldn’t say it was all for nothing, but it’s main benefit was the idea, and not the results it generated

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Re:SETI@home is in hiberation by andsoitis on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:30AM (#46705452)
> system that probably has led to scientific advances in other fields

Did it though?

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Re:SETI@home is in hiberation by nicbn on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @09:55PM (#46714676)
Wikipedia has a table for how many papers each project produced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_f...

According to this, Rosetta@home (which is like Folding@home that runs on BOINC) produced 234 papers.

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Re:SETI@home is in hiberation by Izkata on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:56AM (#46705773)
Except as a kid back then, the screensaver was trivial to install and neat to look at, and BOINC was a pain. I dropped it when they switched. I imagine some less-technical adults who were interested did as well.
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