Subject: Re: Boinc Priority, Part 2
From: fairwater@gmail.com (Derek Lyons)
Date: 09/09/2004, 19:14
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

raj@rijhwani.org (Raj Rijhwani) wrote:

On Wednesday, in article
    <10jven6o5bbmbe5@corp.supernews.com> dlb613@charter.net
    "David or Eunice Boucher" wrote:

climatepredicition workunits, which can take up to a year to process,

If that's true, someone made a serious error of judgement in designing 
the work units.  How many computers are going to work reliably and remain 
installed, or be properly backed up and restored, sufficiently well for a 
work allocation to ever be completed?

One suspects you need to visit climateprediction.net where you can see
exactly how many computers have done just that.

D.
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