Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of BoincIntro
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- Apr 23, 2007, 8:55:05 PM (18 years ago)
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v1 v2 19 19 Projects can have separate scheduling and data servers, with multiple servers of each type. Clients automatically try alternate servers; if all servers are down, clients do exponential backoff to avoid flooding the servers when they come back up. 20 20 * '''Source code availability''' 21 BOINC is distributed under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html Lesser G NUPublic License]. However, BOINC applications need not be open source.21 BOINC is distributed under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html Lesser General Public License]. However, BOINC applications need not be open source. 22 22 * '''Support for large data''' 23 23 BOINC supports applications that produce or consume large amounts of data, or that use large amounts of memory. Data distribution and collection can be spread across many servers, and participant hosts transfer large data unobtrusively. Users can specify limits on disk usage and network bandwidth. Work is dispatched only to hosts able to handle it.