Thank you for proving my point ... :)

You're welcome :)

Where was this? Can you point to it with a link?

No; it was a private email (which makes me wonder if it's legal/moral to re-post here without permission).

THe whole point of a Wiki is actually to make LOTS of little pages, if they prove useful they grow as people add material ...
Some of the "definitions" in the UBW started as one liners that grew into multi page monsters as people asked us for more examples and explanations ... Wiki at its best ...

Yep, like Wikipedia. A page may start as a stub, then grow. A section may grow too large, so it gets split into a separate page. Or, a page may start explaining the two different things a word may mean, and as soon as it grows slightly, it gets split into separate pages for each meaning and a disambiguation page.

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Thank you for proving my point ... :)

You're welcome :)

I just hate being right about another disaster ...

Ah, well ...

By the power vested in me, I pronounce you free of guilt and sin for any posting that may have been fattening ... or something like that ...

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from: [boinc_dev] user documentation . . .

Paul D. Buck
Mon Apr 14 13:10:21 PDT 2008

On Apr 14, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Paul D. Buck wrote:

Though I MUST stress again, our target audience is NOT a bunch of
geeks or scientists ... it is ordinary people and if we INSIST that we
write it like thesis or dictionary is written, well, it is not going
to be as attractive as it could be ... if you have flown Southwest
Airlines you know that professional does not mean we cannot have fun
and tell jokes at times ...

I know I must come across as unhinged about this ...

But think about it ... one of our targets is the youth ... that 10
year old that has a computer and we want to "hook" them into the
science and excitement of exploration...

We cannot do that if we make this another boring homework assignment.

With many adults it is worse ... because, unlike many of us with
advanced degrees they do not recall school with fondness.

And I think I have greater insight in this than most of the project
people in that while you are buried in the details of your project I
was one of those on the front lines answering questions. And I never
got one to make the material harder to read ...

I know a couple of the people commenting here are/have been answering
participant questions ... have any of them asked for a more difficult
to understand answer?

I thought not ...

Simple, clear, and complete as possible ...

Paul

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. . . thought everybody'd be interested in this:

Boincoid - An Android port of the BOINC platform

Boincoid is a port of the BOINC platform to the Android operating system. BOINC was originally written in C++,

at the University of California - Berkeley. It came to life along with the SETI@home program also written in C++.


Both projects are open sourced, and so we took the C++ code and translated it to Java and then added Android-specific modifications.

The result is an Android BOINC client that behaves exactly like the original one. It is re-modeled to fit Java better and offers

projects like SETI@home the option to port to Android and then link with our BOINC client

© Copyright 1999-2008 - SourceForge, Inc., All Rights Reserved

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The 4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop will be held 2008 11-12 September - in Grenoble, France

The objective of this workshop is to share information about BOINC and projects using it, through short presentations and informal discussions,

in a relaxed, open and friendly atmosphere. The workshop aims to stimulate new developments and activities related to volunteer computing and

distributed thinking, by allowing users to share their experience and requirements, giving developers the opportunity to outline their plans,

and stimulating new collaborations between participants . . .

. . . the Past - 2006 Workshop pdf file


. . . also see: The 3rd Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop - held 5-6 September 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland



Copyrighted © 2008 Helsinki Institute of Physics

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Thanks for the info Richard.

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Thanks for the info Richard.

. . . My Pleasure Sir

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. . . Update regarding The 4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop will be held 2008 11-12 September - in Grenoble, France . . .


Registration

The workshop is free but attendance is limited. If you are interested in attending,

or have any questions, please email David Anderson

BOF Discussion topics

Possible discussion topics (feel free to append):

- Defragmenting BOINC documentation
- Multithreaded and coprocessor apps
- Use of mobile devices (cell phones, PDAs, media players)
- Social networks and BOINC
- Distributed thinking and education
- Recruitment; publicity; teams
- Scheduler: handling diverse workloads; HR
- Use of VM technology for apps
- Simplify app dev, the wrapper, master/worker, etc.
- Apps in Java, Python, Lisp
- BOINC and Grids
- Web features; Preferences system (including project specific settings)
- How to keep server software up to date; other project management issues
Security
- Credit: normalization, generalization

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. . . Update regarding BOINCoid Source Release: 2008-05-18


. . . "Boincoid" Bringing BOINC and its projects (SETI@Home, etc.) to the Android mobile platform, through translation to Java

from: Oded Ben Dov . . .

thanks to Carmi, our code is now available on the SF site:

http://sf.net/projects/boincoid

You can find both a general Java port, and an Android port on the site.


Please please please read this first post in the Open Discussion forum (Discussion Forums: Open Discussion)

- it portrays the state of the current code, and can save you many questions and frustration.


We sincerely hope that the enthusiasm expressed in this list will now be manifested to real code,

and that BOINC will expand even further thanks to the "cross-platformity" of Java.


Cheers everyone,

Oded

> © Copyright 1999-2008 - SourceForge, Inc., All Rights Reserved

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. . . Project Proposal Client - MOINC


. . . of Interest - from Nafran Shiraz of Sri Lanka - Subject: [boinc_dev] BONIC being implemented in a different way

. . . a final year student from Computer science & Engineering Department,

University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka. Me and 9 of other students are planing to

do something simiar to BOINC but using SOA and Web Services.


I have attached all the project proposals given to the department regarding

this. We would love to get all you ppls advice and support during time of

developing our project (see below)

Name: Project Proposal Client MOINC - pdf file


Name: Proposal Server Enhancement Module - pdf file


Name: Proposal Server Core-final - pdf file

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. . . Explanation of the Nature Journal - First CPDN Results

Nature is a very prestigeous scientific journal. CPDN's has had their paper go through the extensive peer review process

necessary for it to be approved for publication. It was published on 27th January 2005

The paper is available here <------ (click me

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. . . WorkShop08: INRIA Building



. . . an UPDATE - June 30, 2008 to The 4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop - September 11-12 2008

A workshop on volunteer computing, distributed thinking, and BOINC will be held 11-12 September 2008 in Grenoble, France.

It is being hosted by the MESCAL team of INRIA, and supported by IBM. The general organizers are Derrick Kondo (INRIA) and David Anderson (UCB).

The local organizers are Carlos Barrios-Hernández (LIG), Daniele Herzog (INRIA), and Arnaud Legrand (CNRS)


The objective of this workshop is to share information about BOINC and projects using it, through short presentations and informal discussions,

in a relaxed, open and friendly atmosphere. The workshop aims to stimulate new developments and activities related to volunteer computing and

distributed thinking, by allowing users to share their experience and requirements, giving developers the opportunity to outline their plans,

and stimulating new collaborations between participants.


Attendees . . .

* = tentative

Tolu Aina (Oxford, climateprediction.net)
Peter Amoako-Yirenkyi (Ghana)
Bruce Allen (MPI)
David Anderson (UC Berkeley, BOINC)
Eloi Appora-Gnékindy (U. Bangui)
Oded Ben-Dov (Technion)
Rémi Bertin (INRIA)
Matt Blumberg (GridRepublic)
Oliver Bock (MPI)
Carl Christensen (QCN)
Laurent Debreu (LIG)
Frederic Desprez (INRIA)
possibly 1 or 2 students as well
Gilles Fedak (INRIA)
Marc Garbey (U of Houston)
Yiannis Georgiou (LIG)
Daniel Gonzalez (U. of Extremadura)
Francois Grey (CERN)
*Carmi Grushko (Technion)
*Jack Harris (USAF)
possible 1 or 2 others also
*David Kim (U. of Washington)
Derrick Kondo (INRIA)
Adam Kornafeld (SZTAKI)
or someone else from SZTAKI
Janus Kristensen
and maybe 2 other people doing rendering
Nicolas Maire (U. Basel)
Paul Malécot (INRIA)
Bernd Machenschalk (MPI)
Erick Meneses (LIG)
Pierre Neyron (INRIA)
Lucas Nussbaum (LIG)
Reinhard Prix (MPI)
Kevin Reed (IBM)
Alejandro Rivero (U. of Zaragoza)
Jack Schultz (AAS)
*Marc Silberstein (Technion)
Ben Segal (CERN)
Ana Silva (UnoSAT, CERN)
Malek Smaoui (U. of Houston)
Jaspal Subhlok (U. of Houston)
Boleslaw Szymanski (RPI)
Corinne Touati (INRIA)
Carlos Varela (RPI)
Pedro Velho (LIG)
Francisco de Vega (U. of Extremadura)
Rom Walton (UC Berkeley, BOINC)
Frank Weiler (Potsdam/Germany)

Total: 40 definite, 8 tentative

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The Meaning of BOINC Terms . . .

Take a look at the Boinc Wiki . . .

Triplet . . .
Spike . . .
Pulse . . .
Gaussian . . .

and the SETI@Home Glossary . . .


. . . Create a Virtual Campus Supercomputing Center (VCSC)

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NEWS: July 25, 2008

We've started creating work for SETI@home's new Astropulse application. At first we will just create a small amount, but we expect to enter full production next week

. . . Astropulse FAQ: Astropulse is a new type of SETI. It expands on the original SETI@home, but does not replace it. The original SETI@home searches for narrowband signals,

as does a conventional AM or FM radio. Astropulse, on the other hand, listens for broader-band, short-time pulses.


Click here for the Science details of Astropulse

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NEWS: July 30, 2008

. . . Subject: [boinc_dev] BOINC 6.2.14 release to public for all platforms


BOINC 6.2.x is now ready for public use.

We would like to thank everybody who helped with this release, without
your tireless help we would not have been able to get this release out
the door.



The highlights for this release are:

1. Improved security on Windows machines

2. Windows Vista compatibility

3. Multi-selection for projects, tasks, transfers, and messages tabs.



The release notes can be found here:

Release notes for version 6.2



Once again, thanks to everybody who made this release possible.



----- Rom

BOINC Development Team

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. . . boinc_dev Digest, Vol 51, Issue 3 - Subject: [boinc_dev] Request for Comment: BOINC Power Management

We have had a request for greater control of how BOINC does what it does
for power management purposes. I would like to get everyone's feedback
on what they would like to see implemented in this area. Mostly so we
can better understand the problem space and put together a solution to
address as many scenarios as possible.



I've started a wiki page here:

. . . Power Management <---------- click me


If you don't see a power management policy that you know a company or
university uses please add it to the list.



Thanks in advance.



----- Rom

"Many people and companies want finer gain controls put into BOINC for better power management.

We need to identify the various scenarios people and companies want to support

before we can put together a plan to address them . . ."

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News July 2008 . . .

. . . SETI@Home Adds New Search Method


< from Slashdot:

Adam Korbitz writes to point out that SETI@Home has added a new algorithm

for use in evaluating signals from outer space.

It's called "Astropulse," and they've made the scientific details available.

Quoting:

"The original SETI@home is narrowband, meaning that it is listening for a particular radio frequency.

That's like listening to an orchestra playing, and trying to hear when anyone plays the note "A sharp."

Astropulse listens for short-time pulses. In the orchestra analogy, it's like listening for a quick drum beat, or a series of drumbeats.

Since no one knows what extraterrestrial communications will 'sound like,' it seems like

a good idea to search for several types of signals.

In scientific terms, Astropulse is a sky survey that searches for microsecond transient radio pulses."

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News - August 25, 2008

The Foundation for Computational Learning and Science is performing a survey of BOINC users.

The survey asks BOINC client users about their demographic data, level of education, income,

project participation, level of interest, suggestions for improvement, and technical data related

to their computers running BOINC. If you would like to participate the survey is here <------ click me

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. . . WorkShop08: INRIA Building



. . . another UPDATE - September 10th, 2008 to The 4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop - September 11-12 2008

. . . "The BOINC tutorials and workshop can be viewed live as a webcast" see the provided Link above

A workshop on volunteer computing, distributed thinking, and BOINC will be held 11-12 September 2008 in Grenoble, France.

It is being hosted by the MESCAL team of INRIA, and supported by IBM. The general organizers are Derrick Kondo (INRIA) and David Anderson (UCB).

The local organizers are Carlos Barrios-Hernández (LIG), Daniele Herzog (INRIA), and Arnaud Legrand (CNRS)


The objective of this workshop is to share information about BOINC and projects using it, through short presentations and informal discussions,

in a relaxed, open and friendly atmosphere. The workshop aims to stimulate new developments and activities related to volunteer computing and

distributed thinking, by allowing users to share their experience and requirements, giving developers the opportunity to outline their plans,

and stimulating new collaborations between participants.


Attendees . . .

* = tentative

Tolu Aina (Oxford, climateprediction.net)
Peter Amoako-Yirenkyi (Ghana)
Bruce Allen (MPI)
David Anderson (UC Berkeley, BOINC)
Eloi Appora-Gnékindy (U. Bangui)
Oded Ben-Dov (Technion)
Rémi Bertin (INRIA)
Matt Blumberg (GridRepublic)
Oliver Bock (MPI)
Carl Christensen (QCN)
Laurent Debreu (LIG)
Frederic Desprez (INRIA)
possibly 1 or 2 students as well
Gilles Fedak (INRIA)
Marc Garbey (U of Houston)
Yiannis Georgiou (LIG)
Daniel Gonzalez (U. of Extremadura)
Francois Grey (CERN)
*Carmi Grushko (Technion)
*Jack Harris (USAF)
possible 1 or 2 others also
*David Kim (U. of Washington)
Derrick Kondo (INRIA)
Adam Kornafeld (SZTAKI)
or someone else from SZTAKI
Janus Kristensen
and maybe 2 other people doing rendering
Nicolas Maire (U. Basel)
Paul Malécot (INRIA)
Bernd Machenschalk (MPI)
Erick Meneses (LIG)
Pierre Neyron (INRIA)
Lucas Nussbaum (LIG)
Reinhard Prix (MPI)
Kevin Reed (IBM)
Alejandro Rivero (U. of Zaragoza)
Jack Schultz (AAS)
*Marc Silberstein (Technion)
Ben Segal (CERN)
Ana Silva (UnoSAT, CERN)
Malek Smaoui (U. of Houston)
Jaspal Subhlok (U. of Houston)
Boleslaw Szymanski (RPI)
Corinne Touati (INRIA)
Carlos Varela (RPI)
Pedro Velho (LIG)
Francisco de Vega (U. of Extremadura)
Rom Walton (UC Berkeley, BOINC)
Frank Weiler (Potsdam/Germany)

Total: 40 definite, 8 tentative

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. . . Astropulse: A New Way for ET to Phone Home <---- click me

SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer returns to tell us about a new search now underway on many of SETI@home's one million computers.

Astropulse is looking for signals that may reach us as quick, broad pulses of radio energy.

Bill Nye the Science and Planetary Guy looks at the space shuttle and human spacecraft plans around the world

from The Planetary Society

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