"~misfit~" <misfit61nz@yahoo-mung.co.nz> wrote:

As much as I don't like the idea of knocking the folks at Berkeley too much.
C'mon! BOINC *should* be doing better than SETI classic did at start-up.
They've had five years of experience with distributed computing plus an
extensive period of beta-testing with BOINC with thousands of people
partaking in the testing. 

The beta had around 2-5,000 people in it.  At last report SETI-BOINC
had over 20,000 users.  That's a huge jump and huge lump of traffic.
It's an enormous strain on the hardware available as the bulk of the
hardware is still allocated to SAH Classic.  It's an enormous strain
on entirely new software.

Also, technology has progressed in leaps and bounds in five years.

Technology is absolutely meaningless to the problems at hand - bugs in
custom written software.

D.
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