What is BOINC?

[compudog]

I don't check out the DC forum too often, but I do like to look at the stats. What is this BOINC project that is replacing SETI and when will this happen?

 

[Confused]

BOINC is the "next gen" of the Seti application. It will be a central client for many different projects, and allow you to specify how much CPU time goes to what projects etc. It is a very good way to get lots of projects together in one, (hopefully) simple to use, client and will hopefully allow caching of work etc, and hopefully will cut down on a number of methods of cheating.


Confused

 

[ProviaFan]

Hold on... I thought BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) wasn't SETI itself, but was the structure within which the SETI project was going to be run; other projects could theoretically be run within the same structure as well. Anyway, let's hope that it's as good in the aspect of configurability as the RC5-72 client is (that thing has every option you could ever hope for / dream of, and more; its flexibility is the only reason at all I run it on my work computer).

 

[Spleenus]

Originally posted by: jliechty
Hold on... I thought BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) wasn't SETI itself, but was the structure within which the SETI project was going to be run; other projects could theoretically be run within the same structure as well.

Didn't Confused say that?

 

[panhead49]

boinc running


here is a screen shot of BOINC running

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Spleenus

Originally posted by: jliechty
Hold on... I thought BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) wasn't SETI itself, but was the structure within which the SETI project was going to be run; other projects could theoretically be run within the same structure as well.

Didn't Confused say that?

"BOINC is the "next gen" of the Seti application..."

Sorry, I'm being too picky, I guess. 😉

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: jliechty

Originally posted by: Spleenus

Originally posted by: jliechty
Hold on... I thought BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) wasn't SETI itself, but was the structure within which the SETI project was going to be run; other projects could theoretically be run within the same structure as well.

Didn't Confused say that?

"BOINC is the "next gen" of the Seti application..."

Sorry, I'm being too picky, I guess. 😉

Well...i did kinda mean that it will more than likely be released when Seti2 is released, so they'll probably be synonamous with one another 🙂 I suppose we're both right, in a way 😉

Confused

 

[Rattledagger]

Well, Astropulse will be the first using BOINC. It's already in limited beta.

For info on BOINC

 

[Spacehead]

Originally posted by: panhead49
boinc running


here is a screen shot of BOINC running

Are you running it?
Is anyone on the team running it?

 

[panhead49]

no.........i found that on the seti site.......