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Message 49351 - Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 9:39:32 UTC

It looks as though folding@home ain't going the BOINC route after all....see this.

http://toolbar.google.com/dc/faq_dc.html

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Message 49354 - Posted: 26 Nov 2004, 10:11:23 UTC

They have been using google compute for a long time...probably longer than BOINC has been around. Nothing I saw on that site would indicate Folding@home was doing that exclusively. From reading the F@H message boards the google client is usually a bit behind the standard F@H client anyway. So hardly a deterent to them making a BOINC version.

The big hurdle there is that the current client works well and they currently have little or no reason to make a BOINC client. Once BOINC has matured and we start pulling users away from them then they will have a real reason to port or change to BOINC.
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