On Friday 18 May 2007 18:54, Coran Fisher wrote: > be no decrease in accuracy. Also boinc projects are sometimes serious > scientific endeavors so accuracy is extremely important, do you have any > reason to suspect a boinc project is returning inaccurate results > because it's used by boinc?
I don't see much evidence of cross checking. I do see lots of evidence of massive timewasting e.g. SETI having a few blocks of data run many, many times. Also the presentational work involved in being run as a screensaver wastes loads of CPU cycles per client. OK there may be other ways of running BOINC clients but most people just don't bother. FYI most of the systems I have running mprime don't run a GUI at all. Command line works just fine, uses a lot less less resources... and lets mprime run a percent or two faster, even on state of the art systems running GUIs that are a lot more efficient than windoze, even when no foreground applications are running. > I also suspect you could continue to run > the stand alone client as a few projects did that for a while so > basically you could choose the current style of client or boinc. For a while? Long enough to enable me to find something else? > So I > see no reason for people to leave if boinc was used. The (minimal) gains > vs the work involved is the only show stopper I see. Minimal gains could well be net losses. Depends whether you want to see numbers of users or numbers of _useful_ CPU cycles contributed. Regards Brian Beesley _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
