I can't find anyone who has a ppc linux distributed computing project except maybe seti, which is a waste of time IMHO. I would love to load Yellowdog linux on my ppc g5 but I have not found any project to run on it.

Their project is periodic. They launch batches of new protein samples pulled from other database sources for similarity analysis usually on the 1st of the month. Often work availability is exhausted by beginning/middle/end of second week into the month. They want all done for uploads into other DB's by 15th. Got them on 5 weight points, so usually 5-10 jobs are pulled at the beginning of the series, after which it quickly exhaust the Long Term Debt and goes to sleep.

Their jobs are either 2mb or near 6mb DL (SIMAP runs 2 apps) and last an hour, so rather network heavy.... another reason for curtailing their crunching share (but that's a personal peev item). A Future BOINC function, mentioned in other thread also today is bandwidth limitation.... "okay you had your 100mb dl/ul this month.... you're on break". Maybe when it gets there, WCG can assign a DL/UL per project, so AC@H fans can do jobs with complete upload.... just 130mb, and smaller quorum.... un sogno.

unk3mpt, we have had this discussion at WCG many times before.

In conclusion, minority platforms are a very low priority for WCG, because they consume a disproportionate amount of staff time for a very, very small return.

BOINC can run on many many platforms, but porting the sciences, not WCG's own (they host), are not and have been over years developed most probably without particularly that Big-EndiaNNess in mind.

http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/endianness.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

If it were, WCG would have little hesitation me seems.

Sorry to see you go over this and while DN may be portable to many platforms, most big DC projects are not and aim for that untapped market of a billion+ PC's that run vanilla flavour Operating systems or a specialized one like ATI GPU's or PS3's.

Taking the vanilla road allows to host many instead of or just 1 or 2 projects with the limited financial resources that IBM has provided for WCG to work with.... and probably is still in excess of a few million USD to fund staff, networking, hosting and a secure / trustworthy environment that takes in many volunteers, colleges and corporation networks.

Take Care.