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Message 4407 - Posted 23 Sep 2008 11:21:07 UTC

I just attached to this project. I saw in the BOINC RSS that the project was taking new crunchers. I liked what I read about the double mission.

Then, after attaching and getting a WU, holy tamales!
What a screen saver. Fabulous. The cat's pajamas. And from an alpha.

Best of luck in the mission of the project.

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Message 4409 - Posted 24 Sep 2008 1:37:37 UTC - in response to Message ID 4407 .

I also attached to this project for the first time. I am interested in crunching my second biology/medical distributed computing project.

The website design is fabulous! I consider this to be one of the best of all BOINC projects.

I am amazed at the wonderful screensaver! I did not expect this alpha project to have such a great screensaver. I noticed that the movement of the graphics is slow and not smooth. Is that normal for the screensaver?

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Message 4413 - Posted 24 Sep 2008 12:17:20 UTC - in response to Message ID 4409 .

I also attached to this project for the first time. I am interested in crunching my second biology/medical distributed computing project.

The website design is fabulous! I consider this to be one of the best of all BOINC projects.

I am amazed at the wonderful screensaver! I did not expect this alpha project to have such a great screensaver. I noticed that the movement of the graphics is slow and not smooth. Is that normal for the screensaver?


First of all thank you both for the compliments on the screen saver! We really appreciate it when the users compliment our work. Secondly, the "unsmoothness" of the graphics can be explained in a few ways. The screen saver is written using opengl. In both opengl and directx there are vertex rendering accelleration structures (display lists and vertex buffers respectively). In the current version of the screen saver display lists remain unimplemented, however after added them the speedup should be sufficient to make the movement smooth. Hopefully we can get this in there sooner than later plus a few other little pieces I'm in the process of adding to it.

Thanks again for the support!
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Message 4452 - Posted 1 Oct 2008 16:22:33 UTC

Well after some time away...found that I had to go through the sign up process once more...does that mean that all my past credits are gone?
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Message 4453 - Posted 1 Oct 2008 20:31:44 UTC - in response to Message ID 4452 .

I don't think we had removed any old account, not even if the owner was away for a long time. Are you sure your account is not longer there? If that is the case, then it means that your credit has gone.

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Message 4574 - Posted 6 Nov 2008 2:50:54 UTC

Visit the link to our screen saver video at youtube It explains how to view the different modes of the screen saver and the current features

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Message 5634 - Posted 10 Jan 2010 19:35:42 UTC

Yes, this is a great screensaver. I'm glad I attached to this project.
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