The reason is quiet simple: SETI is successful and GIMPS is not.
Don't worry, SETI junks million of CPU years while GIMPS solve
complex math. problems (8
>Yes the article does go into great detail re Beowulf clusters, but the
>penultimate paragraph contains:
>
>"An equally important trend is the development of networks of PCs that
>contribute their processing power to a collective task. An example is
>SETI@home, ..."
>
>As usual, we get ignored while SETI gets all the publicity.
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