20.07.2015 16:17, Tom Ritter wrote:
I've set up and run BOINC tasks before. Unless something has fairly significantly changed, BOINC is really designed for discrete tasks.
BOINC is used for discrete problems in many projects, but it has no limitations to run long tasks. It can be run as a daemon and work indefinitely. BOINC - standardized platform for all projects that attract A volunteer computing resources. There are no other restrictions on the type of project. Please look at CERN's BOINC-Projects. They run a virtual machine with the Linux and BOINC is only used as a wrapper to controll working and view a progress.
Indeed, Tor relay does not need to BOINC technically, but BOINC provides hundreds of thousands of volunteers the opportunity to participate in the project
by a simpliest way. -- Best regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev