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SETI@home: an experiment in public-resource computing

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 45, Issue 11

Pages 56 - 61

https://doi.org/10.1145/581571.581573

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Millions of computer owners worldwide contribute computer time to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, performing the largest computation ever.

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SETI@home: an experiment in public-resource computing
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
  2. Physical sciences and engineering
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval

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