More Boinc News:
07-01-2004
The software is very different -- old school number chrunchers have to get their heads together about the different way things are done. The split between server and client is less pronounced, it is harder to get enough work to do.
07-07-2004
Things look ruff. The berkeley/Seti technical staff is suffering under the strain of growing pains. We did not start with the beta version and expected the technical glitches to be all worked out by the time of the official release.
07-14-2004
Things are BAD with boinc, the seti staff has completely forgotten that the volunteers made this program a success. Each of us is the administrator of our own node in this project and it is our job to make sure our part is done effeciently. Unfortunately the seti staff has begun to think only of their system. They act as though they are at war with those that made this project great. Do they think that the volunteers can wait for jobs, wait for credit, we can be issued terrible software, and work the same jobs over and over? They think nothing of stopping our credits from the old system from counting before the new system is ready to run. They don't hesitate to turn off the servers, turn off the stats, turn off team lookups etc. instead of getting a machine from the old stack and putting it in the new stack. They add a cache feature and didn't think they might need more jobs for all that cache. They add all this pausing, counting and retrying but they didn't think that that would use more server resources than just handing out the job. They take the place of great software (with stats) like Setihide and force us to check our progress and set our preferences on the website, but they didn't think that that would require a more robust webserver.
So shut it down -- the idiots (I mean volunteers) will wait, all the trouble makes everyone appreciate just how big a job it is and how speacial you are for doing it. Meanwhile we are all looking for other work to do. Maybe I can process some medical research for free so that the Drug Company can earn billions from my CPU's!!!
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Hi, Whoadie;
Thank you for helping in this noble (if somewhat fruitless) effort to find Extra Terrestial life. I'm sure you will agree that the distributed computing (one of the many break through technologies spun off of this collaborative work) is worth the price of admission all by itself. Our labors in this endevor have lead us to maximize our computing resources so as to inch forward in this race to accomplish more Work Units than the other participants. We have learned to reduce the needless load on our CPU's that MS Windows seems to squander and we have learned to overclock and tweak everything related to faster, more efficient processing.
This has been a great experience, and we will gladly help anyone (who joins our group) discover the same things about their node in this massively distributed computer. You do not have to be from earth to join lapendos, but you must have a sense of humor.
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