btw, Boincoid was dropped due to lack of human resources, not mobile ones. (and it is not all dead, just mostly dead) And *eventually* (try to look a few years forward, seriously) of course BOINC will run on mobile devices. Will it be Boincoid, or this new promising alternative MBOINC - you can't stop progress... ;-)
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Wasn't BOINCoid dropped because no work could ever be returned even > remotely on time? > > The first round of GPUs had a few similar problems (it took longer to get > the data back from the GPU than the difference in processing time - since > fixed with then newer models). Until this problem was fixed, it was > pointless to do much more work. > > There are 2 different grid problems. > 1) Assign work to a BOINC client that has been assigned to the server > where the server is part of the grid assignment mechanism. There are at > least 2 projects doing this. To the BOINC client it looks just the same. > 2) Using the CPU of a grid computer to do BOINC work when that CPU would > otherwise be idle. This required a few changes to the client to > accommodate the process. > Both of these have the tasks running on a computer that has the capability > to do the work in a timely fashion. > > jm7 > > > > Carl Christensen > <[email protected] > m> To > Sent by: [email protected] > <boinc_dev-bounce cc > [email protected] > u> Subject > Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC for Mobile > Phones - please test on your Java > 10/27/2009 02:29 phone > PM > > > > > > > > > > I don't quite understand the bashing of this guy's mobile project; there > was that "boincoid" a year or two ago which was in vogue, and IMHO the same > ones bashing the "usefulness" of mobiles are the ones crowing about how > great GPU's & CUDA & Sony Playstations etc are (completely ignoring the > fact that 99.99999% of real-world science apps won't run on it). Not to > mention that there's all sorts of dubious-benefit computer sciencey stuff > out there trying to turn boinc into some god-awful grid mess. so I'm > willing to keep an open mind about it (and GPU's & grids ;-). > > > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
