Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum - View Single Post - Join BAUT teams for BOINC(Einstein-,SETI-,LHC-,...)

Sporally · #**344** (**permalink**) 28-May-2007, 10:52 PM

@Ken Vogt
Yes, a cosmology BOINC project does indeed sound interesting, and most likely i will be running it to when it is running. Together with Einstein with longer deadlines and PlanetQuest and Orbit. Damn many project for the future, though i find many of today's projects to have some downsides. Einstein - dealine, SETI - MIGHT be waste of time, uFluids - lack of WUs, and then some too commercial for me.

But as for einstein@home i think it is very important for the to change the deadline, can't be that difficult as you pointed out. Once we did 1% of the WUs per day. Now we are dropping in work done, most likely because of the short deadlines. I have two PCs. One AMD and one laptop i think is AMD too, but maybe Intel. I don't use my laptop enough for it to do einstein@home WUs, and i use my desktop for playing a other stuff. Playing stops BOINC more or less, and with the rest of the time my comp. is turned on i find it hard to do them in time before the deadline is reached. But i think the guys behind einstein@home should think about how many WUs they loose for not extending the deadline. Some find that they can't do it in time and therefore looks for other projects, and some return the data too late, which is then thrown onto someone elses computer in the hope that they'll make it in time, but maybe they won't and then the final result will take a lot longer than if they changed the deadline. I would say as much as twice as long. I use my computer relatively much for other purposes than playing but barely make it in time. Some people don't have their computer turned on that much and they won't be able to make it in time if it will not be extended for twice as long as it is today. Maybe my problem is more of an AMD problem than it is a computer-turned-on problem.