I have noticed in the last couple of days that the new site GridOctane is up and running on my machines. Like all boinc projects I like to know what I am crunching for. Can you give me and the rest of us on the program a breakdown of what kind of work we are doing if possible. I will have more questions possible in another topic about how it interacts with other projects after some visual inspection of operations between the projects and account manager.
You are always crunching for good, that's the whole point of Charity Engine.
Our model is different from regular BOINC, in which you give your favourite science projects your spare computing for free.
We do that as well - any spare CE computing always goes to science - but we try to sell it first, to ethical customers only though (as defined by the charities).
This means you're always computing for one of two things: a cool science project, or an ethical, commercial task that's generating money for the charities and the user prize fund. 'GridOctane' is one of them.
I have noticed in the last couple of days that the new site GridOctane is up and running on my machines. Like all boinc projects I like to know what I am crunching for. Can you give me and the rest of us on the program a breakdown of what kind of work we are doing if possible. I will have more questions possible in another topic about how it interacts with other projects after some visual inspection of operations between the projects and account manager.
Thanks for any info possible.
Timothy Dickey
Hi Timothy,
You are always crunching for good, that's the whole point of Charity Engine.
Our model is different from regular BOINC, in which you give your favourite science projects your spare computing for free.
We do that as well - any spare CE computing always goes to science - but we try to sell it first, to ethical customers only though (as defined by the charities).
This means you're always computing for one of two things: a cool science project, or an ethical, commercial task that's generating money for the charities and the user prize fund. 'GridOctane' is one of them.
Cheers,
Mark