I'm more interested in the competition of the whole thing, but if good comes out of this, all the more power to it all. I've run Seti off and on now for 3 years or so, but have recently gotten back into it, and am running no less than 10 boxes at any given time with Seti chugging away on those CPU cycles.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.