Nice to see that you left the Dark Side nflight.
Once upon a time I was in to beta testing on boinc. And without a doubt there are a few boinc projects that are excellently run with more than sufficient infrastructure, funding, and intelligence. The sad thing to me about boinc is that basically it has enabled every junkyard wannabee out there to run a project. Some of those projects are interesting and have a good premise and all, however the support just isn't there. Many of them have shut down with no warning. There are also a number of them that are just plain unreliable, they run today for a while, then don't for a while. Many don't have work, or don't process it, or run out of work and take forever to assign more, or run out of work for one platform but not another, and on and on. WCG is one of the projects that is run with much forethought. Some start out well, and then fall on hard times... seti comes to mind. Boinc was an outgrowth of the seti effort.
Anyway, I just sit in amusement and have to laugh over all the drama and histrionics over a number of the boinc project problems. Many, many of them shouldn't be running. Then aren't funded worth a hoot, however well intentioned they may be. I put some time and effort into some boinc projects only to have them shutdown out of the blue, etc. I got tired of it, and that is one of the main reasons why I don't touch boinc projects anymore. Stuff like that has soured many people on the DC efforts. It's not the same now as it was back in the days when seti was all the rage.
And nflight, it isn't only the boinc ones that have the corner on poorly run projects... remember ditributed folding? Or there was one on evolution that was cool, the name escapes me now, but it was a fun one and then whammo.... they went offline. Or how about the non-boinc D2OL that went through the whole points fiasco thing and lost tons of the previous crunchers? But at least D2OL is still plugging away.
A new boinc project comes out and too many just flock to it like a herd of flies in a barnyard on a fresh pile of cow dung.... And what have all these fly-by-night projects accomplished other than wasting a ton of electricity?
I'm not personally a fan of F@H clients, however, Pande (or whatever his name is) has to be commended for having one of the most progressive and organized projects out there that has stood the test of time. He even got Sony programming for him.... not many have done that. But it is one of the few excellent projects out there. There are also a few math projects that have been chugging away for a long time, SOB comes to mind right off the top of my head..... GIMPS has been around a long time, and some others also. And the interesting thing is there is a paucity of boincness among them.Some of them take a bit a manual intervention, and they aren't simple projects to run. But they have a following, a long term one, and they are devoted.
One area of nflight's comments was intriguing though... the part that was referencing boinc statistics addiction.
Go figure...
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again. It should be over my dead body.
It is my feeling right now. My Intel PII runs EoN as the only project.
Originally Posted by sentient_life
Will I make a difference! I like to think that I will and I'm making a difference.
Whats important is not how much we crunch, nor how high we go, but that we all do crunch and that we do it out of our hearts and not for the status of been # 1 or in the top 5% bla bla.
gone.
