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What's the point in this BOINC stuff if there are no work units?
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TonyW Send message Joined: 7 Jun 04 Posts: 3 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
I've installed the BOINC thing, gone through the hoops to start it up and been told that 2004-07-24 23:42:46 [SETI@home] Message from server: No work available 2004-07-24 23:42:46 [SETI@home] Message from server: No work available There seem to be plenty of work units on "classic" SETI@home (is that "classic" as in Coke - the new one will be quietly dropped when it's found that the "classic" one actually does the job?) - what gives? Why should I run a version that doesn't give my CPU anything to do with its idle cycles? |
Anonymous Prime Send message Joined: 17 Dec 02 Posts: 3 Credit: 168,500 RAC: 0 |
One of the main points of BOINC is that you can join other projects, and run them alongside each other, and dictate how much CPU time to allocate to each one. If one of the projects is down (like SETI is, at the moment) the others can still run. I'm running SETI and Climateprediction.net right now. CPDN will certainly keep your computer busy-- their work units can take *months* to complete. |
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