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September 13, 2011

Skynet seeks to crowdsource the stars

BBC News - Skynet seeks to crowdsource the stars:

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Idle home computers are being sought to help search through mountains of astronomical data.

The Skynet project involves using the spare processing capacity of computers as a giant, distributed supercomputer.

PCs joining Skynet will scour the data for sources of radiation that reveal stars, galaxies and other cosmic structures.

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