Subject: Re: My thoughts on BOINC
From: gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston)
Date: 03/07/2004, 03:29
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

In article <1u2be0l9apdfnu2jssiffs3mgrp0chpoa1@4ax.com>, f/f george  <*> wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:08:38 -0400, "Darren Eveland" <develand@ody.ca>
wrote:
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4) It sucks that none of the old 3rd party tools will work.  For example I
would like to see the status of computer running seti from *one* computer.
The third party tools are from third party people/vendors and when
they the program up and running they will put out the programs.
  [ ... ]

My concern is that the way BOINC is done, it's impossible to have
something like SETI Queue--WUs _have_ to go directly to the crunching
system, meaning all systems have to be able to directly access the
Internet. Complicates things a lot for me, but I'm working on fixing
that. Maybe I can get it done this weekend, if we don't have another
server crash at work...


Gary

-- Gary Heston gheston@hiwaay.net Contrary to popular opinion, _not_ everyone loves Raymond.