WAY back in 1999, a badge of geek pride was to run a new screensaver program called SETI@home.

话说1999年，一位声名显赫的古怪人士打算运行一个叫做SETI@home的电脑屏幕保护程序。

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Searching for aliens with SETI@home; modelling the climate with climateprediction.net; sorting galaxies with Galaxy Zoo

用SETI@home找寻异形；用climateprediction.net（气候预测网站）模拟气候；用星系园给星系分类

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One of the first examples was SETI@home project out of Berkley, which used spare CPU cycles to crunch data coming from space.

第一个用例是Berkley的SETI@home项目，它使用了空闲的CPU周期来处理来自各方的数据。

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