Nick Simpson wrote: > I just have to throw my two cents into this: > > The guy is willing to put time into it to make the platform available.. why > all the negativity? If its available, you'd be surprised what someone might > come up with. To say that nothing exists right now that would use it is not > a reason to not develop it. John mentioned how CUDA wasn't very good in the > first generation and likened phones today to that. It takes that first > generation to get it out of theory and into practice so that a > person/community can see what works and what doesn't. Until it is tried, it > is all hypothetical.
I agree. Some of the "peer review" here does get to be a little "resistant" to changes/developments sometimes. My view is that Boinc is an awful lot more than just high power super-computing number crunching. Also, there's an awful lot of very capable mobile phones that are quickly becoming ever more capable... That's a huge and often idle resource that can be tapped. As always in computing, it is important to appropriately match together the application and the hardware. Perhaps that is something that Boinc can be developed further to support better, so that Boinc tasks are preferentially offered to the best suited hardware for the task. Regards, Martin -- -------------------- Martin Lomas m_boincdev ml1 co uk.ddSPAM.dd -------------------- _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
