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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7854 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have BOINC running on several PIII's of various flavors with no problems. Running windows 2000. They mostly run with the monitor disconnected so graphics are not an issue. They run at minmum of 640 X480.
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Sekerob,
----------------------------------------From everything I read since I joined this forum, in the feature line "Upgrades" for UD I think you could replace "Infrequent" by "Never", or at least "Very unlikely".  The comment in "Future Projects" is good news. Cheers. Jean. |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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When the new cancer project gets up and running in a few weeks time did i miss something? i read the last update in cancer and i don't see anything about any project yet.
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Former Member
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All you grid.org types will find this strange, but WCG don't officially announce new projects until they actually launch. That's mostly because the launch date is never fixed - it's always "when the techs are darned sure it's ready".
That said, the CAs have a peek into the pipline, and we can sometimes pass on tantalising tidbits. Also, those who participate in the beta project (BOINC only) usually get a bit of a hint of what is coming. |
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Rickjb
Veteran Cruncher Australia Joined: Sep 17, 2006 Post Count: 666 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Sekerob's post with the copy of the BOINC/UD comparison table, posted 30 May, says most of it, but I'd like to emphasise a couple of points:
- BOINC has "work buffering", that is, it downloads and keeps a queue of new work-units on your computer, waiting to be crunched. This is almost ESSENTIAL if you have an INTERMITTENT (DIAL-UP) NET CONNECTION, and even if you have broadband, it keeps your computer crunching if the project server(s) are temporarily down. UD only downloads 1 new work-unit when the previous one has finished. - If you have MULTI-CORE computer(s) and you want to crunch with more than 1 core, you must use BOINC. If you really have to have sexier graphics, then UD may be for you. I wonder whether when WCG developed their current website policy of steering new Windoze crunchers onto UD they were worried that advocating BOINC would leak crunchers to non-WCG projects. WCG, with BOINC, you might gain more than you lose. Swings and roundabouts ... |
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Former Member
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Strange how a lot of the answers say WHY you should use Boinc, when the original question called for reasons NOT to use Boinc....just shows how many people actually read and comprehend questions.....
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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just shows how many people actually read and comprehend questions..... OK, you wanted it. It's because people here do not like to be negative (you are allowed to not believe that ). So let's be "positive":People who hate changing their habits for using a new better tool should definitely stay away from BOINC. Especially if they also prefer to migrate in a hurry when their old beloved tool is finally discontinued instead of doing it quietly in advance. Is it OK this way? Jean. |
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Former Member
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No, it's because Lawrence covered the downsides in the very first reply. There's really nothing else to add (but that didn't stop the thread drifting off topic, as threads so often do.
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Strictly speaking I've not found a single 'must' reason *not* to use BOINC, but the BOINC throttle, that could nerve a person on a puter that has an excessively fast responding fan throttle, which is more likely to exist in a laptop.... and even that can be countered with a 3rd party throttle tool, leaving no single *not* from my perspective going forward.
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Former Member
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It could potentially damage the fan. WCG have put in a request to improve the BOINC throttle in the next version, but it still won't be as good as WCG's own throttle.
----------------------------------------edit: and the workaround, of course, is to set the throttle to 100% (or try it at 50%, which gives the fastest CPU cycling and should hopefully allow the fan to run at a constant speed). [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 31, 2007 12:22:00 PM] |
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