Editing SETI@home (section)

===More restrictive computer use policies in businesses===
In one documented case, an individual was fired for explicitly importing and using the SETI@home software on computers used for the U.S. state of Ohio.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 9, 2004 |author=John Adams |url=http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2004/10/knock_down_then_kick.html |title=Knock Down, Then Kick – O'Reilly Databases |publisher=Oreillynet.com |access-date=17 May 2009 |archive-date=May 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513035117/http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2004/10/knock_down_then_kick.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In another incident a school IT director resigned after his installation allegedly cost his school district $1&nbsp;million in removal costs; however, other reasons for this firing included lack of communication with his superiors, not installing [[firewall (computing)|firewall]] software and alleged theft of computer equipment,<ref>{{cite news |title=Higley firing tied to alien-search software |date=November 30, 2009 |newspaper=The Arizona Republic |url=http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/11/30/20091130searchforaliens1202.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407055848/http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/11/30/20091130searchforaliens1202.html |archive-date=April 7, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> leading a [[ZDNet]] editor to comment that "the volunteer computing nonsense was simply the best and most obvious excuse the district had to terminate his contract [[Dismissal (employment)#Reasons|with cause]]".<ref>{{cite news |author=Christopher Dawson |url=http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/admin-fired-for-incompetence-not-alien-search/3408 |title=Admin fired for incompetence, not alien search |work=ZDNet |date=December 2, 2009 |access-date=20 November 2013 |archive-date=May 11, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100511193644/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/admin-fired-for-incompetence-not-alien-search/3408 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{{As of|2005|10|16}}, approximately one-third of the processing for the non-BOINC version of the software was performed on work or school based machines.<ref>{{cite web | author = SETI@home | year = 2005 | url = http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/venues.html | title = SETI@home computer venues | access-date = 12 June 2006 | archive-date = July 3, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080703160840/http://seticlassic.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/venues.html | url-status = live }}</ref> As many of these computers will give reduced privileges to ordinary users, it is possible that much of this has been done by [[network administrator]]s.

To some extent, this may be offset by [[Internet access#History|better connectivity to home machines]] and [[Moore's law|increasing performance]] of home computers,{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}} especially those with [[GPU]]s,<ref name="SETI_GPU">{{Cite web
 |url=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=73935
 |title=SETI@home now supports Intel GPUs
 |date=January 29, 2014
 |access-date=February 19, 2015
 |archive-date=February 20, 2015
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220063011/http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=73935
 |url-status=live
 }}</ref> which have also benefited other volunteer computing projects such as [[Folding@Home]].<ref>{{cite web
 | url = https://www.engadget.com/2006/09/29/stanford-university-tailors-folding-home-to-gpus/
 | title = Stanford University tailors Folding@home to GPUs
 | author = Darren Murph
 | date = September 29, 2006
 | access-date = February 19, 2015
 | archive-date = October 12, 2007
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071012000648/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/29/stanford-university-tailors-folding-home-to-gpus/
 | url-status = live
 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 | url = http://graphics.stanford.edu/~mhouston/
 | title = Folding@Home – GPGPU
 | author = Mike Houston
 | access-date = February 19, 2015
 | archive-date = October 27, 2007
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071027130116/http://graphics.stanford.edu/~mhouston/
 | url-status = live
 }}</ref> The spread of [[mobile computing]] devices provides another large resource for volunteer computing. For example, in 2012, Piotr Luszczek (a former doctoral student of [[Jack Dongarra]]) presented results showing that an [[iPad 2]] matched the historical performance of a [[Cray-2]] (the fastest computer in the world in 1985) on an embedded [[LINPACK]] benchmark.<ref name="iPad2_Cray2">{{Cite web
 |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE4NjU
 |title=Apple iPad 2 As Fast As The Cray-2 Super Computer
 |first=Michael
 |last=Larabel
 |date=September 16, 2012
 |access-date=February 19, 2015
 |archive-date=February 20, 2015
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220054659/http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE4NjU
 |url-status=live
 }}</ref>