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Message 47549 - Posted: 28 Jan 2013, 2:55:37 UTC

I know that BOINC is for distributed computing, but I had this great idea the other day: what if (as kind of a partner with computing projects) some universities could do a distributed science project. Say, an air sampling project. People could sign up and receive an air sampling kit that everyone was to use at a certain time. Either the kit or the results could be sent back to the university for study--maybe the results could be processed by a BOINC project! :-)

I know that this is off topic, but it seems the best place to post this.
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Message 47552 - Posted: 28 Jan 2013, 10:46:14 UTC - in response to Message 47549.  

Ni bad, but the existence of BOINC DCs is based on volume of work to process. If it's small, lasting but weeks, then setting up a server and client, it would be enough to run it a few months on a university cluster, and, having full control on the flow at that and not having to spend lots of time on public beta testing at that to overcome the enormous diversity of hardware/software combinations that are out there wanting to participate.
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Message 47555 - Posted: 28 Jan 2013, 14:48:24 UTC - in response to Message 47552.  

It doesn't have to be processed by a BOINC project.
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