1) Message boards : BOINC client : Xbox 360 (Message 5099) Posted 23 Jul 2006 by BirdValiant Post: I thought that all versions of BOINC are the same, and a science application designed for a Mac BOINC would work with a Windows BOINC since they are designed to do the same things. If different versions of BOINC are different, and one application would work with a Windows BOINC, but not a Mac BOINC, then I guess that you're right, that it wouldn't be worth the effort.

2) Message boards : BOINC client : Xbox 360 (Message 5038) Posted 17 Jul 2006 by BirdValiant Post: I'm wondering how many of you guys have Xbox 360's. Do you think it would be possible for a BOINC client to be made for the 360? If it were possible, and available for download, would you download it? Would you pay any money for it? If so, how much? I don't know how BOINC could be put onto the Xbox Live Marketplace, though. Can anybody sell BOINC for a profit? Even the University of California? If they could sell it, though, I hope that it isn't to make a profit, but rather to cover the costs of making it and distributing it via Xbox Live. If a BOINC download for the Xbox 360 had to be free, I think that it would still be worth the effort. There are millions of Xbox 360's out there, many connected to the Internet via Xbox Live. The 360 is powerful, and it could easily implement things like Credits and Teams because Xbox Live has clans anyway. Maybe you could even link your Xbox 360 BOINC account to your computer's BOINC account as well. I don't know if it costs money for the developer to have a download available, but there is a free plug-in that allows for AAC playback with an iPod, and that's made by a third-party company, and they're not making any money off of it (unless Microsoft is paying them or something). Of course, a GUI would have to be developed that would be much more user-friendly than that of computers, and would have to have its own menu and area of the Xbox 360 Dashboard. It would also probably have to include a way to throttle CPU power and turn off the 360 after a specified number of hours to avoid it overheating. SETI@home and eventually BOINC were built to utilize all of the untapped computing resources just sitting there across cyberspace, in the form of PC's. Now, there is another source for a massive amount of computing resources: video game consoles connected to the Internet, in the form of Xbox 360's, and later, PS3's. They are just sitting there for most of the time, probably more than PC's.

3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Built-In ThreadMaster (Message 2682) Posted 20 Jan 2006 by BirdValiant Post: Does anybody think that there should be a component in the BOINC software that would control the maximum CPU usage percentage for BOINC projects, in the same way as ThreadMaster, except with an easy-to-use GUI? It could even have a schedule to raise or lower the percentage based on the temperature of the motherboard. That'd be much harder to program though... with 3 normally separate programs all thrown into one. It'd be nice for those with poorly cooled computers or laptops.

4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Xbox 360 BOINC (Message 1733) Posted 9 Dec 2005 by BirdValiant Post: I'd buy a BOINC "game" for $20-$25. I don't know if enough people would do so for the project to make any profit, however.

5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Xbox 360 BOINC (Message 1699) Posted 8 Dec 2005 by BirdValiant Post: Due to the processing capabilities of Xbox 360's, the large amount of these units (in the future, I have yet to get one :p), and Xbox Live connectivity, does anybody here think that Microsoft could work with the University of California to produce a "game" that would process BOINC projects?

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