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jonasavory
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Hi All,
Sorry, I expect there are other threads along this vein, but I didn't find them after a short look. The team that develops BOINC lost their NSF funding in mid-2015 and immediately turned BOINC over to community development. At the time, they seemed confident that the community would rise to the challenge. Yet witness that the last stable update to BOINC was... mid-2015. What is WCG's plan to provide the necessary development of the next generation of distributed computing? From where I sit, the road ahead is very dark indeed. At this point, I'm wondering if I should convert my operation over to Bitcoin mining and simply donate the revenue to research in the public interest. |
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Mel S Stark
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When I hear this from BOINC, it will be a whole lot more credible.
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2982 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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jonasavory - it's not 'the end of the world yet'....
----------------------------------------WCG have always taken and slightly customised the BOINC source code, checking and compiling it themselves - so the version that we're currently running with, will be around for quite some time. Also, I'm sure that I've seen other threads/discussions stating that some development work is on-going (if I remember rightly, there's a specific BOINC chatroom somewhere - so, have a search for that).  |
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SekeRob
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hmmm, maybe try checking out the Berkeley forums and this https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,40193 ;)) (Testing right now 7.8.1 on Linux, release candidate
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Recommended version was 7.6.33, which is posted here:
----------------------------------------https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php On Jun 2016. It's the Linux version which was halted at 7.4 from 2014...but that one is mostly community based! |
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Former Member
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https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
"Project management changes proposed" "In July 2017 a committee was formed to propose improvements to the BOINC project. Two draft documents are now available for discussion and review: development workflow and governance model. Please give feedback by replying to this thread or posting to the boinc_dev email list. 1 Sep 2017, 22:24:38 UTC ..." And, this just in, too: http://wiki.gridcoin.us/Main_Page "Mint Decentralised Consensus Launch Date October 16, 2013 Developed by Rob Halförd Ticker GRC Plural Gridcoins Subunit mGRC =0.001 Lowest Unit 0.00000001 = 1 Halförd Operating System Windows, Linux, macOS Algorithm Proof-of-Research; Proof-of-Stake and Proof-of-BOINC hybrid Current Version Client v3.6.0.2 mandatory Release Date August 26, 2017 Blocktime 90 Seconds Reward Variable " Three things bother me: ONE: "Linux on ARM" (Not Android!) is not further along by all the projects (including WCG) using BOINC. Some have claims of offering it, or for Raspberry Pi (RPi) specifically. However, over 12 Million RPis have been sold, and this from a UK charity only Five years old! I project hundreds of millions of these and similar ARM boards being sold to "ordinary folks". TWO: Arch Linux GUI user environments "out-of-the-box" are not further along on ARM boards, including RPi. All those "ordinary folks" don't know they need Arch, so they flock to Ubuntu, etc, for Lack of Choice between Debian or Arch based Linux GUI user environments. THREE: https://www.stellar.org/ Lack of a Stellar based "computer money" choice as reward/incentive for "community computing". Eddie Maddox Rural McBain MI USA |
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we4qcphi8
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@gb009761 - I would actually like to hear more about how WCG customizes BOINC (other than the obvious visual branding). But it's worth noting that WCG does not customize BOINC for Android. Because of this, finding the proper software on Android via the Google Play Store is, for the newbie, confusing. In my opinion.
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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@gb009761 - I would actually like to hear more about how WCG customizes BOINC (other than the obvious visual branding). But it's worth noting that WCG does not customize BOINC for Android. Because of this, finding the proper software on Android via the Google Play Store is, for the newbie, confusing. In my opinion. We know...some experiences have been shared to admin & tech here: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,40268  |
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