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Title: nVIDIA power pack for SETI@home?
Post by: Sutaru Tsureku on 19 Apr 2009, 09:15:16 am
Have a look to this side and scroll little bit down.

http://www.nvidia.com/content/graphicsplus/us/download.asp

Power pack for SETI@home? [6.3 MB]

What's this?

I could speed up my GPUs with this?

Or it's only to look to the SETI@home animation nicer.. ;)

To now I didn't downloaded it.

Because I don't know, what it is..
Title: Re: nVIDIA power pack for SETI@home?
Post by: perryjay on 19 Apr 2009, 09:31:26 am
All it does is download Boinc Manager 6.4.7.
Title: Re: nVIDIA power pack for SETI@home?
Post by: Richard Haselgrove on 19 Apr 2009, 09:36:43 am
Well, I downloaded it. What a laugh.

You get a copy of BOINC v6.4.7, and a text file of instructions.

The instructions file uses *nix formating, but once you fight your way past that, you find there is no reference to either SETI or BOINC in the file. So you're on your own.

So far as I can tell (by doing a '/a' administrative upack of all the files - I haven't tried a binary compare yet), the BOINC installer is a straight copy of the Berkeley download, even though it comes from an nVidia download site. So it has no auto-connect to SETI as a default project - you would have to understand (guess?) that you have to connect to SETI, and sign up for a new user account, before anything happened - and all without being referred at any point to either the BOINC or SETI homepages. Somehow I don't think they're going to get many live accounts from that.
Title: Re: nVIDIA power pack for SETI@home?
Post by: Richard Haselgrove on 21 Apr 2009, 01:51:28 pm
I took this up with nVidia, through a semi-public "name and shame" posting on the BOINC Developers' mailing list. I've had positive feedback from both the development and marketing divisions of nVidia, acknowledging the defects in the instruction file. Hopefully we'll see some better presentation shortly.
Title: Re: nVIDIA power pack for SETI@home?
Post by: Raistmer on 22 Apr 2009, 01:42:04 pm
Very good news. Cause the idea itself is great. SETI needs advertizment on website of such big company as nVidia. (It should be good advertisment though :) )
Title: Re: nVIDIA power pack for SETI@home?
Post by: Richard Haselgrove on 22 Apr 2009, 01:49:54 pm
Quote from: Raistmer on 22 Apr 2009, 01:42:04 pm
Very good news. Cause the idea itself is great. SETI needs advertizment on website of such big company as nVidia. (It should be good advertisment though :) )

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Title: Re: nVIDIA power pack for SETI@home?
Post by: Raistmer on 22 Apr 2009, 01:59:39 pm
Quote from: Richard Haselgrove on 22 Apr 2009, 01:49:54 pm
Quote from: Raistmer on 22 Apr 2009, 01:42:04 pm
Very good news. Cause the idea itself is great. SETI needs advertizment on website of such big company as nVidia. (It should be good advertisment though :) )

You have mail.
got it, thanx