Mike McCarty wrote: > David kerber wrote: > >> This may have been discussed in the past, but I haven't seen a response >> to the single time I saw it asked: Has anybody discussed the >> possibility of migrating the prime search software to the BOINC >> platform? I run both SETIatHome and prime95 on a dual-core machine, but >> > > Do I hear a volunteer? > I'd be willing, but since I would have to first learn to program in C (or at least learn it well enough to port it to Java), that might take a while ;-)
> >> it takes some fooling around to get them both to share resources >> nicely. Having the prime search on the BOINC platform would make this >> much easier. There are also a LOT of people running BOINC, and moving >> > > Define "a LOT of people". > According to the BOINC home page (http://boinc.berkeley.edu), just over 1 million people are registered. AFAIK, that is about 10x what the prime95 project has. >> the prime search to that might raise the visibility and response a bit... >> > > Mike > D _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
