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BOINC Account Manager was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 03 November 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Yoyo@home was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 03 June 2010 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Official site empty![edit]

The official site [1] is just a blank page! What is wrong? retirved 7/3/2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.9.221.122 (talk) 06:37, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It works for me. Tugaworld (talk) 10:32, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup this page[edit]

Can someone with the technical Wiki know-how add the collapsible "This article is in the scope of multiple wiki projects" to the top so we can show/hide the 3 wikiproject boxes?

And lastly, could anyone archive all these ancient threads? --Pstanton (talk) 23:58, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done ----Erkan Yilmaz 00:28, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of BOINCStats BAM Account Manager[edit]

In addition to the two account managers listed, there is also BOINCStats BAM at http://boincstats.com/bam/ which is an account manager, forum, and credit tracker. Sire TRM (talk) 21:02, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology?[edit]

My feeling is that this is a backronym -- and that, more specifically, it's an allusion to Bill Watterson's Scientific Progress Goes "Boink". I don't suppose anyone could find a source for that? DS (talk) 12:31, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That almost has to be true, it's too apt to be a coincidence. But I can't find any sources, either. Fishal (talk) 20:22, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

World Community Grid[edit]

The World Community Grid page mentions BOINC, but there's nothing on this page about the World Community Grid. Can somebody who understands the relationship, add it and add a link? juanTamad (talk) 05:38, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

World Community Grid is a project using BOINC. We could maybe add it by expanding on the Projects section, but listing every project would be crazy, so maybe this and a few others could be. -- numbermaniac (talk) 10:25, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

energy consumption and standing back[edit]

the boinc homepage says boinc uses the idle time of the computer , idle means in computer-jargon that the switching operations in the clockcycle are not in use of a program . this may lead to the belief boinc would only use these useless switching operations without raising the clockcycle-frequency of the energy-saving-function of the computer . this is not true , boinc changes the computer to run full throttle , causing high energy consumption . as boinc has no option to not raise the clockcycle , this behave must be called as environmentally harmful . boinc-project does harm to itself by resulting uninstallations , aggravated by no options for a gamer mode or the ability to completely stand back when the computer is in real use , considering also the networks use .--Konfressor (talk) 10:15, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Konfressor: There are options to stop when the computer is in use. It's literally in the Computing preferences panel, "Suspend when computer is in use". As for gamer mode, there's also a setting allowing you to stop processing when certain programs are running, such as games. "Idle time", in this case, means any potential computing power that your computer is currently not using, such that BOINC can use it. Also, please keep in mind that article talk pages are for discussing the article itself, not discussing the topic of the article. If you want to talk further about this, please do so on the BOINC message boards. -- numbermaniac (talk) 05:29, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

i see some changes were made , gaming mode and networks , since my last use of boinc . i beg your pardon . but the core of my critic isnt touched by this , boinc has no option to keep computers clockcycle-frequency untouched . options only work on percentage of processors time , not on priority of processes nor any energy savings mode . i think about visiting boinc message board too , thank you .--Konfressor (talk) 10:31, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Think you might be right to be honest. After several years, I am interested with the efficiency rate of scientific results from BOINC versus the additional energy utilized for it. - Indefensible (talk) 04:16, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

table of active projects[edit]

The table says Milkyway@home has no GPU apps. They do have them, they've had them for like 10 years. 67.161.107.42 (talk) 01:21, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]