sideband <AINO8SPAMW@cac.net> wrote:

I changed email addresses on the original SETI@Home apparently after 
my stats and account were migrated to BOINC. I can't access my old 
stats on BOINC, so if I migrate to BOINC, it'll be like I'm starting 
over, and I don't want to do that, either.

No matter what, you'll start over when you migrate to BOINC.

BOINC offers nothing to me except a client I have little control over, 
little caching, loss of my stats, and a lack of centralization on a 
local level (in my intranet).

A client you have little control over?  What exactly do you wish to
control that BOINC does not offer?

Little caching?  Up to two weeks worth *per instance* of BOINC.

Loss of stats? Inevitable.  Delaying the move to BOINC only delays
when you start getting BOINC stats.

Lack of centralization?  Check the SETI-BOINC forums, new tools are
coming out all the time.

I like to play with performance data, and tweak things to get the most 
out of the systems I have running. I don't see where BOINC is going to 
allow me to do this easily.

You can change cache settings, and that's about it.  OTOH under hand
under BOINC you have the exact same performance tuning options as with
the Classic client. (I.E. choosing which versions to run under which
OS's and then tweaking the OS/hardware.)

I suspect you have an overinflated impression of just how much you
could do with the older client and tools, and don't realize how much
of it was done at the OS/machine level.

When it does, I'll migrate. It's an all-or-nothing proposition for me. 
If I'm going to compare performance, it needs to be on the same 
"platform".

If it's about science and not ego, then this shouldn't be an issue.
Once can perform performance comparisons on a single machine by
comparing subsequent runs.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL