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September 13, 2011 07:05 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/K30F4cVatYo/theSkyNet-Wants-Your-Spare-CPU-Cycles
theSkyNet Wants Your Spare CPU Cycles
An anonymous reader writes "Thousands of PC users are being called on to donate their spare CPU cycles to help create a massive grid computing engine to process terabytes of radio astronomy data as part of theSkyNet project. It will be used for, among other things, processing the huge amount of data expected to flow off Australia's forthcoming Square Kilometre Array telescope."One can only assume that "other things" will include achieving sentience and finding John Connor.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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