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Resolved Is a BOINC statistic OK for a signature

Discussion in 'Site Comments & Suggestions' started by greenbandit, 2010/05/25.

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    greenbandit

    greenbandit Inactive Thread Starter

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    Would the below link/picture be permitted or would it be classed as a link to a commercial site so banned?

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    I intend to NOT score infraction points :D
     
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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    For us that don't know - what is it?
     

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    greenbandit

    greenbandit Inactive Thread Starter

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    My take on BOINC (Berkeley Open Intrastructure for Networked Computing) is that it was set up when the initial SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) project was proving too much to maintain on its own so they set up a system to allow other worthwhile projects to benefit from people who are prepared to donate spare CPU cycles to projects. I leave BOINC running in the background on all my 4 PCs and I try to concentrate on crunching work from climateprediction.net (to improve long term climate prediction models) or Rosetta At Home (helping to fight diseases by predicting the shape of complex proteins), or GPUGRID (simulating biomolecular simulations), but there are many more.

    I get nothing from it other that when one of the projects manages to do some good for the mankind and the world, I have helped. In the meantime, statistics pages links the one in my post above remind me that I am contributing more than 99.6% of the 1 or so million other participants. So I try to show such things in the hope that others may be interested and join in.

    The initial BOINC front page is
    boinc.berkeley.edu
     
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    Admin.

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    You can have a link in your signature, but not an image.
     
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    greenbandit

    greenbandit Inactive Thread Starter

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    Fair enough, thanks :)
     

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