| Subject: Re: BOINC on old machines |
| From: "Ed" <@> |
| Date: 27/06/2004, 22:11 |
"Seti Cruncher" <SetiCruncher@"NOSPAM"WildMail.com> wrote:
SC> On one of the Boinc pages
SC> (http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah/transition.php) it
SC> mention's (in an example) that Boinc will only send WU's to
SC> machines with 512 MBs of Ram. Does this mean that older
SC> computers with less then 512 MB of Ram will no longer be
SC> able to take part in the Boinc Program or am I miss
SC> interpretating something?
The "WUs" refer to future programs such as 8-bit S@H analysis,
broadband data analysis etc. Kind of ironic to specify RAM without
CPU requirements, because my P II 233 has 768 MB RAM. That
could mean my P II qualifies, whereas the latest P4 with less than
512 MB would not...