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Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of BoincIntro

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  '''Low data/compute ratio''':: Input and output data are sent through commercial Internet connections, which may be expensive and/or slow. As a rule of thumb, if your application produces or consumes more than a gigabyte of data per day of CPU time, then it may be cheaper to use in-house cluster computing rather than volunteer computing.
+== What resources are needed to create a BOINC project? ==
+If you have an existing application, figure on about three man-months to create the project:
+one month of an experience sys admin, one month of a programmer, and one month of a web developer
+(these are very rough estimates).
+Once the project is running, budget a 50% FTE (mostly system admin) to maintain it.
+In terms of hardware, you'll need a mid-range server computer (e.g. Dell Poweredge) plenty of memory and disk.
+Budget about $5,000 for this.
+You'll also need a fast connection to the commercial Internet (T1 or faster).
+It may be difficult for some scientists to provide these resources.
+In this case, it may be possible to create a BOINC project at a higher organizational level,
+to server the needs of multiple scientists.
+For example, the project might be created at the
+[VirtualCampusSupercomputingCenter university campus] level.
+Several U.S. funding agencies (NSF, NIH) have programs that could support this.