Subject: BOINC migration...
From: sideband
Date: 07/11/2004, 08:06
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

I'd be on BOINC right now, except for one (MAJOR) thing...

If I move to BOINC it will bring a full third of my SETI farm down... I have several NetBSD machines, and several machines that aren't x86, and there seems to be no clients available for NetBSD or most non-x86 architectures under BOINC yet.. unless I'm missing something.

Most of my Linux boxen would like it, though, as well as my Win2K machines. I won't migrate until there's support for all the architectures and OS's I run here at the house.. Windows, NetBSD, and Linux for OS's; i386/i686, Sparc64, Alpha 21164, and PMAX/MIPS for architectures.

If the classic gets shut off before everything's available for all my kit, SETI will lose a cruncher. Right now, I'm ranked 5789th with 25758 WU's done since 18-Jun-99.

-SSB