"f/f george" <george@yourplace.com> wrote in message
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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.

Um, Pi is transcendental. That means it never finishes or repeats.



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Henry Goodman
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