f/f george wrote:
[...]

Science evolves, new ways of doing things are imagined and then
implemented, Boinc is the next step for Seti, Cern, Climate
Prediction, Black Hole research, etc. All of this AND MORE will be
available thru Boinc as it cranks up. ...

Nicely put.

I'm not sure that 's@h classic' is quite dead yet. However, as soon as Berkeley get their hardware upgraded and the database bottlenecks cleared to support more users, then Boinc is very definitely the way to go.


For non-critical machines, the auto-update feature for Boinc clients is a very powerful and worthwhile feature. New science can be rapidly set to being worked on.

For more critical systems, stability and security for any new software are become serious issues. 'Upgrades' need to be taken with due caution.


All good fun,

Happy crunching,
Martin