If you want to read the full post visit ROM's blog hereSignificant amount of time and energy has gone into making BOINC's communication infrastructure efficient, yet there are still many whom believe that it really doesn't cost the projects any more to return the results immediately vs. returning the results when BOINC believes it ought too.
For the purposes of this article I'm going to define the cost of a query at $1.00 per query to cover.......
A edit from ROM
[Edit: Since originally writing this I hunted down a few numbers from jocelyn which is the S@H database server
On average jocelyn is processing 314 queries per second.
In the last 5 days jocelyn has processed 144.7 million queries.]