# SETI@home / BOINC **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 22, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seti-home-boinc/304949 "2005-05-22T13:40:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seti-home-boinc/304949/1 "2005-05-22T13:40:43Z")
Have all you dopers who run SETI@home converted to BOINC yet? I only found out by accident that the change-over is taking place. I must say I am very impressed by the speed and new graphics. On the old set-up it was taking 28 hours to run a module. With BOINC this is down to 3. Maybe because it is fairly new, I do find that uploading and downloading sometimes doesn’t work first time , but I get there in the end. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2005, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seti-home-boinc/304949/2 "2005-05-22T13:45:58Z")
I run SETI@home, I had no idea that this existed. Thank you for the link, I’ll go check it out. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Dirx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sir\_Dirx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Dirx)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seti-home-boinc/304949/3 "2005-12-15T19:02:54Z")
My apologies for bumping an old thread like this, but it seems to be an appropriate one for discussion regarding the BOINC client. Has anyone figured out how to get the old Seti@Home graphics to display in the screensaver? I managed to get rid of BOINC’s flying stars and annoying rotating, but the 3D graphics style make is all very hard to read. Is there any way at all to go back to the original setup? ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seti-home-boinc/304949/4 "2005-12-15T19:39:57Z")
> [@Sir Dirx](#): > > My apologies for bumping an old thread like this, but it seems to be an appropriate one for discussion regarding the BOINC client. > > Has anyone figured out how to get the old Seti@Home graphics to display in the screensaver? I managed to get rid of BOINC’s flying stars and annoying rotating, but the 3D graphics style make is all very hard to read. Is there any way at all to go back to the original setup? No suggestions apart from have you tried posting on the Seti@Home discussion boards? you might get an answer there. On the subject of graphics, I am also using BOINC to run the _[climateprediction.net](http://climateprediction.net)_ program. The graphics on there consists a very nice revolving Earth, complete with clouds. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seti-home-boinc/304949/5 "2006-01-16T17:24:14Z")
I switched to BOINC recently. Frankly, I don’t like it much. It’s kinda confusing and I really don’t like the new graphics for SETI. Haven’t tried any of the other projects yet. I’m pissed that I’ve lost at least six months of credit I had with SETI@home. BOINC just doesn’t make me feel all warm & fuzzy about distributed computing. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seti-home-boinc/304949/6 "2006-01-16T19:54:07Z")
So, thousands of people out there are BOINCing their computers? “Hello.” “Hey, dude, whatcha doing?” “Just boinking my computer.” “O. kay. Listen, I’ll call ya back later.” ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seti-home-boinc/304949/7 "2006-01-17T06:50:00Z")
I am running it, with SETI@Home, LHC@Home, Climate Prediction, and World Community Grid all going. The Climate Prediction stuff is huge. 204 hours of CPU time and I still haven’t done 10% of my first work unit yet. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seti-home-boinc/304949/8 "2006-01-17T11:43:14Z")
What no links??? [Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing](http://boinc.berkeley.edu/)