The University of California, Berkeley, launched SETI@home, a project that utilized millions of internet-connected home computers to analyze massive amounts of radio telescope data for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. This proved the real-world viability of massive, crowd-sourced distributed computing, a conceptual precursor to training massive neural networks across decentralized server farms.
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