> > It's not that difficult to find a thread where the only conversation > is about the credits, or to find a thread of someone new to the > project who doesn't care about the science, his only question being > "How can I maximize the amount of credit/RAC with this machine?", or > "Which GPU should I buy and what is my maximum credit/RAC with it?" > > Science? Pah! Not interested. Credits is what we need. > These totally useless things seem to be what BOINC is all about these > days. BOINC went from Berkeley's Open Initiative for Network Computing > to Because Our Insanity is Numbers of Credit.
IMO you get it totally wrong. Science mostly for project founders. They "make science". Some other, usually small part of participants interested in that science. It's just their hobby. But main share of participants don't want to go very deeep in scientific results. BUT (!!!!) they still do just THAT project founders asked them to do - TO DONATE COMPUTING POWER. And here again 2 parts of participats - silent ones, who installed BOINC and forgot about it. Maybe BOINC still works well on such hosts, but we all know BOINC not ideal and most probably after few years such host became unusable for projects w/o new user intervention. But there is another part - active users. They try to maximize RAC, well, FINE, FINE and once more, FINE! They donate not only computing power of their PCs, their donating their own time and efforts to maximize that power and to ensure that BOINC works fine on their hosts. What wrong with that? nothing wrong. As long as higher RAC ~= higher performance - lets increase RAC. Only "credit cheating " and all those howls about it are non-productive. The aim to maximize RAC and to construct host with max RAC for same amount of money is just good aim IMO. And it's THE VERY PURPOSE of Number Crunching forums. Science can be discussed in Science forums. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
