Nick M V Salmon wrote:

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

I know a lot of people are jumping to other projects because they're
dissapointed in SETI-BOINC.

<Puts conspiracy-theory hat on> Do you think that Berkeley could be

[....]

David Anderson was at Oxford for their open day and for some time afterward helping the CPDN developers setup CP-BOINC - CPDN didn't run properley under BOINC v3.xx, so they had to go to the next major revision - that's why CPDN was the first project to run BOINC v4.xx...

In working for the good of Boinc and all (everyone else), I would expect nothing less in the academic environment. No conspiracies, just good academic science (:-))

For further background:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
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Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

A software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources

Projects

BOINC-based distributed computing projects include:

    * Climateprediction.net: Improve the accuracy of long-range climate prediction.
    * LHC@home: Help to build the CERN LHC accelerator.
    * Predictor@home: Solve biomedical questions of protein-related diseases.
    * SETI@home: Analyze radio-telescope data, looking for evidence of extraterrestrial life.

We encourage you to participate in multiple projects, so that your computer will be kept busy even while projects are down or out of work.
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And see:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/talks/madrid_03/madrid.html

for the more Earthly motivations.


I think it is very good that academia can stay above the dog-eat-dog scraps of other walks of life. (But we need to keep the accountants carefully restrained so that it can stay out of the dog bating pit.)


Happy crunchin',
Martin