whoknowswhat
2008-01-16, 00:24
I would like to request BOINC as a feature.
whoknowswhat
2008-01-21, 20:28
BOINC is an acronym, Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing.
Their website is here (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/)
With BOINC you can compute data for different projects.
Such as SETI@home.
You can also create your own projects, and distribute computing.
See BAM! (http://boincstats.com/bam/) and Grid Republic (http://www.gridrepublic.org/index.php) for more info on project creation.
It would be nice if one could opt to compute for projects when there is enough free memory.
Also, it would be a neat idea to see if the computing of the XBMC client could be distributed if possible. Say have XBMC serve to the computers on your home network to increase processing ability of the xbox.
So I would say having both a client and a server for BOINC would be a great feature that could prove useful.
I see that the xbox has limited resources, and techniques to utilize other network devices to carry out tasks too intensive for the xbox would allow for new growth and potential.
The only way to get more ram at this time is to take the ram from another xbox and install it to the xbox you seek to upgrade. It is a far more complex task than what I have outlined that requires certain tools. It would be nice to increase the abilities through networked resources instead of hardware upgrades. BOINC would be a huge step in that direction.
Thanks :D