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my client version is still the old version and has never stopped working right.

I found two projects researching protein folding and using the BOINC software. I signed up for the Rosetta@Home project. It's running right now. I'm back in the medical research game.

I really hope some more people get into this here. The benifits really are worth it.

Dan

I installed Boinc on FreeBSD 6.1 from the ports. boinc manager from /net and seti from /astro. Thankfully I belong to freebsdforums.org and found a good post about the setup from ports. I really had no issues that I know of other then it took a long time to compile. And right now it seems that the seti db is down because my windows xp machine hasn't done anything with seti for a couple days. So, I am unser if my bsd setup is right or not.

I will tell you this, there is an xml file that needs to be built that is not done through the ports. I had to build it manually. I found this information out beforehand though at the forums I previously mentioned. This file, so the forum post said needs to be in 3 places. Again, no information that I found in the bsd ports handbook about this. I'm pretty sure what was in the post was correct though, because I received parsing errors when I first started things. Which means, that the boinc manager definitely was looking for it. Also, when I tried to install this on FreeBSD 5.3, I had all kinds of issues. That could have been for any number of reasons though. Crap setup, that machine was a 600 mhz dell with only 256 of memory. Not alot of swap/tmp/var space. Who knows, I gave up on that machine.

Go figure.

I've heard that the project played out, it had been superceeded to a SETI-II, but I think that died a natural death too. I certainly could be wrong on that, so don't just take my word for it. The local Uni had heavy student involvement with the project, as a good enviorment to play in as for clustering. (one of my pet project pasions thing) Anyway there are more projects out there. (more than ever) As for your machine, I believe it needs to be over the Gig mark. (something that's keeps me held back) and BOINC must have broad-band to work. (the are other sys. that still even work on dail-up, even e-mail)

Seti is still alive though, all they did was move it over to Boinc. It's in the same category as the Einstein project. They just no longer support the old application(I think). Up till maybe 2 days ago, I was crunching numbers for seti. That's another reason I say it's still alive.
The one thing I really like is that they have brought other projects into it. medical being the primary example that I think everyone would want to assist. I just have always been fascinated with anything to do with space, that's why I chose the projects I am involved in.


dan

It's just that very few of the original Seti group of users can get this dam BOINC to work!!!

I certainly can't, I am techie enough to be able to configure it, but I came to the conclusion that this BOINC is a Beta (or maybe alpha?) project, so it is up to them to fix the bugs, not my job.

Problem is, they pulled the rug from under the Seti users, without checking that BOINC fully worked.
Well maybe it did on their high end development machines, but not for the ordinary home user, which was, after all, the WHOLE IDEA behind the distributed computing project in the first place, for God's sake!!!

If you restrict use to the top labs, tops spec machines, you lose out on the whole of the network of distributed PCs that you had before.

Someone high up at Berkley goofed big time, imho.

I would dearly like to get into the projects again, I have 2 home networks, 4 machines on 24/7 and 4, or more, swapped in and out as test machines. I have the spare capacity, motivation and time to participate, but I am unable to do so 'cos of this dam BOINC sh*t

(btw, emails I sent to them about the problems I had went unanswered *** sigh ***)

When I moved over to boinc with seti, I had to re register with a new boinc account. And that is what I used. I lost all of my seti credits, but I am not really into it for that anyway. I actually have never had problems with Boinc on a windows system with either seti project or the Einstein project. It was an effort(and I'm not sure I'm done yet) to install on my FreeBSD machine. But, so far that is only creating an XML file that I found a post about. Had to change some file permissions also, but hey. It's UNIX, I'm use to that. lol

I was just on the seti web page, and they seem to have been having issues with their data base's and hardware of late. At least as of 09/08. They did not have a posting that everything was corrected as of yet.

I think the way boinc is designed is as follows. there is a boinc manager that controls all the projects you can attach to, and then there are smaller clients for each project which can be beta/alpha/stable. That's the impression I got from my install on the FreeBSD box, that and the way they break out the description of each project you can attach to.

Not sure though.

dan