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Well it led to the creation of BOINC, a distributed computing system that probably has led to scientific advances in other fields So I wouldn’t say it was all
by gamer191 9mo ago
Well it led to the creation of BOINC, a distributed computing system that probably has led to scientific advances in other fields
So I wouldn’t say it was all for nothing, but it’s main benefit was the idea, and not the results it generated
- andsoitis 9mo ago> system that probably has led to scientific advances in other fields Did it though?
- nicbn 8mo agoWikipedia has a table for how many papers each project produced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_f... According to this, Rosetta@home (which is like Folding@home that runs on BOINC) produced 234 papers.
- Izkata 9mo agoExcept as a kid back then, the screensaver was trivial to install and neat to look at, and BOINC was a pain. I dropped it when they switched. I imagine some less-technical adults who were interested did as well.