1) Message boards : SETI@home Science : A idea for BOINC.... (Message 133408) Posted 6 Jul 2005 by BowersNet Post: While hanging around on irc, the craziest thoughts entered my head, i now choose to pose them to you. This might be of large importance to the devs and anyone who can help with the direction of boinc. Firstly we must identify problems boinc as a client (and server) has. These include but are not limited to: 1 : When the main server for a project is offline, no work can be recived or returned by clients, this means sometimes valuable processing time is lost. 2 : The costs on bandwidth may fall constantly, but there is hundreds of thousands of us connecting to the project servers, at various times (especially after 1: happens). This causes unnessary strain on the servers. We also know that many people have access to resources which they will happily share (this is why they run boinc/seti). So why not combine the two? I propose a new type of boinc client, which acts in two parts. This is where it gets different from the normal client. Firstly there would be the normal client, this would react as normal and to any normal user they would see no change. Some options would be added, such as to choose a "parent" server (more on this later) or to ignore a "parent" server. This next part would be totally optional for any boinc'er to run. Also problems like firewalls may stop you running a "parent" server. The interesting part of this is the part of the client, which turns your pc into a boinc wu server. The idea is that instead of having hundreds of clients connect to the projects main servers, you become a server hosting only wu's which can be downloaded by clients. You become a "parent" server. This would allow the projects main servers to go offline, while still keeping many clients supplied with work. Also, like bit torrent, the servers could run some kind of database between them, which keeps each other updated with which servers have which projects wu's, updates them to new projects, updates them to new servers, lets them know if any projects have gone down. As each wu is now validated sometimes up to 4 times, this means its nearly always downloaded more than this anyway. Using this Server -> "Parent" Server -> Client idea, the b/w that any project uses could be reduced by 1/4. I know that with some projects (such as cpdn) the space required would be large) or that with some such as Einstine that the time limits might interupt but im sure that something, such as the boinc scheduler would also help in this case, making sure that wu's near their expiry are given out. Im preparing for flames and all pain with this idea, but its just something that popped up. If everyone says no and im bored when i hit the 3rd year of university, i shall try it my self then, but if anyone wants to actually try and get this idea off the ground, i would love to help?(not that i can code ;)) Cheers Tim djsmiley2k@gmail.com

2) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Practicing what we preach -- or doing as I say I will (Message 68859) Posted 14 Jan 2005 by BowersNet Post: You know what would be much much better? Allow him to keep posting, Just make the posts invisble to everyone but him. he gets to spam, hes happy, he wouldn't leave and go anywhere else, and he would belive that hes makin a difference. And we can all get on with our lives!

3) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beginning of things to come RE: Troll-bait (Message 68853) Posted 14 Jan 2005 by BowersNet Post: > i ran over to the grid.org site and warned them. > > Anyway, i would offer for mod duty. > oh, and i've also had aol users banned for abusing my bbs. oooh and i reckon you can get BT users banned pretty easily (thats British Telecom, not Bit torrent! )

4) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Beginning of things to come RE: Troll-bait (Message 68844) Posted 14 Jan 2005 by BowersNet Post: i ran over to the grid.org site and warned them. Anyway, i would offer for mod duty.

5) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Gamespot.com (Message 68807) Posted 14 Jan 2005 by BowersNet Post: hey guys, hope this post is ok here ;) now the spammings finally finshed ill ask. Anyone used gamespot.com, they any good? Anyone know of any coupon codes i could use for them? Im looking at buying a graphics card, after the one i got from dabs.co.uk sucked soo bad. Cheers, Smiley P.S. whats it like having items shipped to the UK?

6) Message boards : Cafe SETI : The user spamming the server has had his authenticator changed... (Message 68787) Posted 14 Jan 2005 by BowersNet Post: would be more fun to acidently release his ip.... i havent seen a collberated DDOS in a looooooooong time. /djsmiley left the building (ping timeout) ;)

7) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I am out of here.Have better things to do with my time (Message 68067) Posted 14 Jan 2005 by BowersNet Post: ill second that =#0

8) Message boards : Number crunching : Einstein@home Account Creation has been enabled (Message 61736) Posted 7 Jan 2005 by BowersNet Post: /me wonders what the copyright on your avatars like....

 
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