Carsten Aulbert wrote > Robert G. Brown wrote: > > What exactly is bonic/boinc? > > First hit with Google: > > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
I have a nit to pick with them. Their web site implies (but does not explicitly state) that giving them access to your wasted computing resources costs you nothing, that everybody wins and nobody loses. That is simply not true and is one reason why some sites ban the installation of these sorts of programs. For some rough cost numbers (it was for a desktop, but the difference does not matter much here) see: http://saf.bio.caltech.edu/saving_power.html#costs My point being, with respect to the original poster, letting something like boinc run on a cluster for outside use could easily end up costing the cluster's owner many thousands of dollars a year. Regards, David Mathog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
