Dave Gower wrote:

I think the SETI project is probably the most important intellectual
endeavour on the planet today. That's why I finished 2500 WU's over 5 years

Good stuff.

without caching. But what a shame that SETI @ home is currently being
sabotaged by incompetence or worse. ...

Sabotage and incompetence?

That insulting last bit doesn't compute. What s@h are trying to do is completely new and far from easy. They are _developing_ a whole new multi-million user system after all.

I have removed my SETI @ home software for now. I may come back to BOINC
when all this stupidity is resolved if it ever is, or I may find another
interesting distributed computing project.

Stupidity?!!!

Yes, the s@h folk may well be stupid for likely working round the clock until they can get the servers to settle.

A little more 'development' is still required, the sort of stuff found and debugged only on a _live_ system.


Fine on the quitting until things settle. I too have other processes humming in the background if Boinc goes offline. However, I think the 'stupidity' bits from you are way off mark. Do you know how it all works to fix it for them for free?

Meanwhile, see:
http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/distrib-projects.html


Good luck,
Martin