[gnarlouse]

Didn't seti@home get discontinued because the state of the art of computation progressed in the direction of cloud computing? Is the goal here to distribute the cost burden?

[nroets]

You may be right e.g. SETI now requiring more RAM than it found in consumer computers.

Also likely that seti@home was killed due to bandwith cost making it uneconomical[1]. After all they were looking for aliens in the data.

This "gridbach" project is much closer to GIMPS.

[1]: even if seti@home got their server bandwidth for free, they also need to factor in the bandwidth cost of their "home" participants.