I love BOINC. Initially, when I first tried setting it up and running it, I had a heck of a time; but recent experience is all positive. I love being able to do cool and useful science while watching SG-1; the uber-cool screen savers that come packaged with the science is a real bonus - and having several projects means never getting bored with any one display. There is only one tiny problem - not enough projects!
I mean, sure, I am running five serious science projects (and Pirates@Home.. I don't mind spending a little time Beta testing new displays and clients); but those seem to be the ONLY serious science projects out there for BOINC. I know, BOINC is still new, and some projects haven't had time yet to notice and develope clients, and it ain't the BOINC teams responsibility to do the client developement fot the individual projects... but do you guys have anything analogous to a marketing department?
I mean, people sign up to run projects that they are interested in. And if they sign up for a couple other projects, for even a minimal fraction of their resources - you know, just to keep busy if the primary project goes down or runs out of work - then that's great... the end result is that all the projects benefit from having more projects, because more projects attract more users and resources. So it makes a certain kind of sense to recruit projects. I know - AstroPulse is coming online "Real Soon Now" - but what about existing projects? I mean a glance at http://distributedcomputing.info/projects.html shows a whole plethora of cool projects (Evolving Circuit Designs! Optimizing a Muon accelerator! Fight Extintion and Genetic Decay! Simulate Geologic Time on Everyday Materials! More Drug Optimization and Protein Structures Than You Can Shake A Stick At!) which are all, unfortunately, non-BOINC. Alas, participating in these cool projects means doing so to the exclusion of all others... including BOINC. It seems like - if your understandably limited and vastly overworked - manpower is up to it, that marketing BOINC to the leaders of these projects would be straightforward and beneficial.
Just my $0.02 rant. Thanks for listening.

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I agree with you in principal. However BOINC is still having enough growing pains to be a hard sell right now. I think waiting until it is more mature to start a real drive to interest more projects in using the platform is the more prudent course.

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Ha you remind me of me when i was younger with classic sitting infront of my screen watching the colours on my 400MHZ pc, then wanting to upgrade so i did more . I did to a 1.8GHZ and realised i could do it faster on command then i upgraded to a 2.8GHZ and switched to BOINC now i wat 2 pcs a 3.6.

Anyway, yea more projects there should be , i like spacey ones, maybe when astropulse comes back i will do that :) but i would do climate prediction if there WU were smaller :)
With time there will be more some stupid, some fun and some scientific...

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Heh. What a difference a year and a half makes! I am now running 15 projects, granted some of them are betas, and almost half are run at very low priority... but BOINC now has projects for every taste! Gotta love it. SETI still gets a sizable chunk of my resources, though - I have been crunching since classic started up, and the project remains near and dear to my heart. Now I just need to get involved with AstroPulse....

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There is a list of the different projects and there requirements at the boinc wiki : http://boinc-wiki.ath.cx/index.php?title=Choosing_a_BOINC_Powered_Project

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