On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Brian Chase wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, John wrote:
> 
> > > > Too bad we don't have a distributed.net client - I've been running dnet on
> >
> > > I would rather have a VAX/VMS client for SETI@Home.  The mission is more
> > > appealing to me than that of distributed.net.
> >
> > They don't have clients for ANY alternative OS or CPU. They're also quite
> >
> > At least OGR has some good mathematical applications. That's why I run it
> > on all of my machines.
> 
> The distributed.net clients and the SETI@Home clients for the VAX (under
> VMS and NetBSD) have been investigated in the past.  The main reasons that
> they aren't being supported are...

ISTR a thread on c.o.v that indicated a 10x speed improvement for a fella
who rolled his own client w/ native VAX vector math.  Of course, since it
wasn't an `official' client, the work was rejected.  I can't recall if it
was project bovine, or SETI.

> -brian.

Bob