Re: Distributed computing.....

Graham J Lee <uk.ac.ox.physics.teaching@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

hairy.biker@xxxxxxxxx (Andy Hewitt) wrote:


I was looking to add the climatechange.net one as well, but when I
looked up the Mac forum, it seems that any WU's sent by a Mac are
rejected, as they don't support the platform!

What?

Further reading in the forum reveals they have very poor research into
this for their reasons. Only 2% of the computer world isn't worth
bothering with! Perhaps they need to look a bit harder (or maybe less
hard!). I looked on the SETI stats page, and they show 10 of the top 12
contributers are Mac PPC machines (in terms of actual work completed),
the top one is a Windows server (so I guess that's a bunch of machines
there). You have to get down to 17 before you see a XP box.

Unfortunately to reply to their forum would have meant setting up an
account, and I don't feel inclined to do so.


Can't say I blame you. However, as that project's run out of the Oxford
atmos. physics department, I feel a little bit of me die when you say
that.

It's (badly) funded by the BBC though.

--
Andy Hewitt
<http://www.thehewitts.eclipse.co.uk/Home.html>
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