[Info-vax] BOINC for VMS

[Michael Kraemer]

Hans Vlems schrieb:

> I agree that SETI and BOINC can do a lot for marketing, especially
> when hobbyist systems can compete too.
> But we know what happened to Alpha. Even if VMS was ported to Intel's
> x64 platform I and given proper FP support I wouldn't try to join
> BOINC.

Yep. I wonder if it really makes sense even on x86
(apart from being a funny hobby, of course).
The numbers one can find in the net (500k PCs, 5 Petaflops)
aren't really impressive when compared with today's supercomputers,
each of which has approx this performance level.
These beasts, when dedicated to stuff like protein folding,
are more economical and certainly more ecological than a bunch
of commodity PCs.
Today, Watts per megaflop is at least as important as purchase
price of hardware.