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    Kickstarter Project Promotes Distributed Computing, BOINC, the Advancement of Science

    Thank you for the advice. The Sheaffer Family
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    Kickstarter Project Promotes Distributed Computing, BOINC, the Advancement of Science

    Rudy, Yes, I agree that they provide an exemplary service. However, I'm not following the connection to our Kickstarter project. They serve up projects; our intent is to blueprint an optimal platform for processing project data.
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    Kickstarter Project Promotes Distributed Computing, BOINC, the Advancement of Science

    Indeed. Some projects also do not support GPU processing at all or only on specific architecture. Some support specific operating systems. Optimization will be based on running a variety of projects and reporting cost/performance on each "flavor" of project.
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    Kickstarter Project Promotes Distributed Computing, BOINC, the Advancement of Science

    Vertaxis, Thank you for the reply. I am going to cut and paste the rather lengthy comment on the Kickstarter site to help explain. Please let me know if you have further questions, ideas or comments. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jonathan, Thank you for the...
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    Kickstarter Project Promotes Distributed Computing, BOINC, the Advancement of Science

    Per the link to rechenkraft.net: "use our total annual budget of 2833 €." Which equates to about $3,700 per year in available funding. It would take 9 years at this funding rate to have sufficient assets to launch the project -- assuming zero cost for legal, accounting, administration...
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    Kickstarter Project Promotes Distributed Computing, BOINC, the Advancement of Science

    Thanks VirtualLarry, We appreciate and respect your perspective. If the Kickstarter project fails to fund, we will certainly look at other options. Are there folks on this forum that would be interested in helping to create a not-for-profit entity to fund and operate a project like this...
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    Kickstarter Project Promotes Distributed Computing, BOINC, the Advancement of Science

    Rudy, Thank you for your reply. We are always looking for ways to improve the project. Could you help us understand why you don't think this is a very good idea? We welcome everyone's thoughts. We truly hope to get input from as many perspectives as possible prior to beginning the...
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    Kickstarter Project Promotes Distributed Computing, BOINC, the Advancement of Science

    H2co32, With great respect, we simply disagree with you. Wuprop@home lists general, and very broad BOINC performance stats for individual components. We know of no source that documents the optimization of a complete computing platform for the BOINC client (by platform we mean hardware...
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    Kickstarter Project Promotes Distributed Computing, BOINC, the Advancement of Science

    Thank you for the replies -(blunt or not) ;) With respect to the hardware suggestions, please see the rather lengthy comment on the kickstarter site. It explains that this is a "typical" list of hardware and explains a few of the different ideas we have for using different components in the...
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    Kickstarter Project Promotes Distributed Computing, BOINC, the Advancement of Science

    ZipSpeed, Thank you for your response. Please see the comments and FAQs on the Kickstarter site. http://kck.st/11CrcbM They directly answer your question. One answer is that the updates provided to all donors will include links to various BOINC stats pages where the work units...
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    Kickstarter Project Promotes Distributed Computing, BOINC, the Advancement of Science

    We have launched a Kickstarter project for the Advancement of Science. The project promotes distributed computing and the BOINC client. Please check out the link below, participate in BOINC and pledge generously. http://kck.st/11CrcbM THANK YOU. The Sheaffer Family.