The Boinc program is still in Beta!!!! Give it a chance.
Mike Bader gave you the long range forecasts for the program not the
ready right now capabilities. As soon as it goes live the other parts
will be worked on with more fervor. Don't get me wrong here the
program is VERY good right now, it just has some issues that the
programmers are working on so the 5 million registered Seti users
won't have to face when the program goes "live". They have to test the
servers ability to respond to well over a million requests a day for
data, give out new and recive processed units, and keep track of all
that returned data, etc., etc., etc. Oh and don't forget the multiple
OS's people use!
Right now today, Boinc only gives out what the programmers are working
on. In the future Boinc  will be expanded so you and I can choose what
programs we want to contribute our unused computer cycles too. We
reportedly will also be able to divide the computers time between
several at the same time. Meaning that we can choose for instance
Folding@home and Climate Prediction and then give one 60% and the
other 40% of our cycles, or whatever combination we choose.
There will be, as Mike said, several choices and perhaps even some
that haven't gone into production yet. The Boinc part of the program
will be released freely and then other programs will be able to input
there own program for us to give our cycles too. We could for instance
have the choice to work on anti-viral drugs, the origins of life, the
formation of the cosmos, anything that programmers/companies think
that our unused cycles could be of assistance too. Maybe even finally
the solution of Pi to the final digits, or at least to the point where
it starts repeating.

On Sun, 23 May 2004 14:14:12 GMT, "sweet" <sweet430@hotmail.com>
wrote:

I want my computer to work only on BHE. I haven't seen a way to make sure it
does. IS there a way?

"Mike Bader" <mdbader@flash.net> wrote in message
news:9s1sc.19860$B76.12473@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com...

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/boinc_transition_plan.html

Why is SETI@home switching to BOINC?
Several reasons:
BOINC transparently and securely downloads new application versions. This
lets us upgrade and extend SETI@home without requiring you to download and
install new software. It will make it easy for us to integrate new
algorithms, such as analyzing our 8 bit/sample reobservation data, or
looking for other types of radio signals such as short pulses from
evaporating black holes.
BOINC has a more flexible data architecture than SETI@home Classic. Data

can

be transferred to and from multiple servers, and can remain resident on PC
disks. In the future, we'll use these capabilities to search for ET

signals

in a much larger radio frequency range.
BOINC distributes work based on host parameters. Work units requiring 512

MB

of RAM, for example, will only be sent to hosts having at least that much
RAM. This lets us use BOINC for a wider range of computations than the

"one

size fits all" SETI@home Classic.
Eventually other distributed computing projects (like Folding@home and
ClimatePrediction.net) will also use BOINC, and you'll be able to share

your

computer time among projects of your choosing.

-- 
Mike Bader
Join our International team
http://www.setiathome.us
http://www.boinc.us

No of SETI units returned: 27918
Processing time: 49 years, 147 days, 16 hours.
(Total hours: 432784)

"sweet" <sweet430@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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So why do BOINC? Isn't it just re-chewing the same data?

"Mike Bader" <mdbader@flash.net> wrote in message
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BOINC is the client that will run many applications, AstroPulse is one

as

is

SETI II. See

http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/
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