Berkeley released the platform software, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing BOINCC), in 2002.
"Open infrastructure is the exact opposite of political corruption," he explained.
Data infrastructure "is not a nicety," said Paul T. Morris, executive director for the project, which he has named Utopia, a stylized acronym for the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency.
Part of the boom in volunteer computing is due to an open-source platform for running such projects, called BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), launched in 2002 by David Anderson, the director of SETI@home.
According to the entry's self-description, "Unlike today's payphone, the NYFi is an interactive portal to public information, goods, and services, a hub for free wireless internet access, and an open infrastructure for future applications.
This fall, distributed computing will take a step forward when its largest project, SETI@home (short for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), introduces a software program named for its University of California origins: Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, or Boinc.
The Web We Want campaign is promoting five key principles for the future of the web: Freedom of expression online and offline, affordable access to the net, protection of user data and privacy, a decentralised and open infrastructure, and net neutrality.
Another interesting approach is Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing BOINC 99.
Going forward, it'll be the Open Infrastructure Summit.
