[Tilesathome] T at H vs. BOINC - Neverending story?

[Philip Gillißen]

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Hi Frederik!

You're definitely drawing a black picture of TaH. It's really
disappointing to read all these points

Am 21.09.2010 15:22, schrieb Frederik Ramm:
> The sad thing is that for most tiles,
> computing them centrally with fast software takes less time than the
> overhead of creating a job, sending it to a client, and accepting a tile
> upload later.
Ok, this may be an infrastructural problem that cannot be solved with a
"tah2boinc" scriptlet. It looks like there's more to fix, doesn't it?

> I guess nobody wants to code it. I'm unsure if the complex requirements
> of a t at h client (including Inkscape, proper fonts, Perl & all) can
> simply be thrown at the boinc wrapper script; my guess is that one would
> have to write quite a bit of code to allow something like inkscape to
> simply and seamlessly suspend and continue in BOINC environment.
The requirements for TaH are indeed heavy so some people fear them and
uninstall TaH right after the first error message.

All this consideration lead me to one question: Is TaH dead?
It looks like the "at Home" addition is lost and does not create any
advantage.
A new infrastructure for "TaH v2" would be necessary. Is it too radical?

Greetings, Philip
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