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BOINC is going to evolve
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:31 am
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Thought I would share this with you all, if you go to the URL in the quote it will show you a example of what it will look like.
We can all thank WCG for this :wav:
BOINC is working with World Community Grid (WCG)
to develop a new interface for the BOINC Manager.
This new interface is intended to be more appealing
and comprehensible to non-technical participants.
The current interface will continue to be available as an "advanced" option; users will be able to toggle between the simple and advanced interfaces.
A mockup of the interface is here:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/images/BOINCSimpleGUI.pdf
Please reply to this list with any comments or questions about the appearance and/or feature set. We hope to do couple of iterations of design review and then start working on the implementation in 2-3 weeks.
WCG is contributing considerable design and programming resources
to the development of this interface.
This work will benefit all BOINC-related activity, not just WCG.
It's a big step in moving BOINC participation beyond the world
of computer nerds, out into the general PC-owning population.
The resulting code will be released under LGPL, like the rest of BOINC.
The new interface will be "skinnable" - there will be a generic BOINC skin,
as well as one for WCG, BBC, and anyone else.
WCG is eager to involve the entire BOINC community in
the design process
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:46 am
by UBT - Mikee
Thanks for the link.
Graphics seem to be A4 rather than 4X3. Hopefully, they can get all the info on 1 screen rather than have to scroll down.
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:57 am
by UBT - Halifax-lad
I have faith in D.Anderson & Co. as well as with WCG, they will ensure everything is fine and works correctly.
Its nice of WCG to put a lot of there resources into this as well, things should progress at a quick pace I think once they get going as they seem to have bags of money and lots of technical experience.
Looks like WCG have signed for the death of UD, as once BOINC is completed it will look very much like UD. That is what is stopping a lot of users on the UD Client from WCG switching to BOINC.
I love the idea of having it skinable, also at least the classic version will still be in there with the new version, so anyone who doesn't want to see a graphical interface doesn't have to.
Will with any it will luck pull more people to it once completed, am going to like testing this one
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:44 am
by UBT - Halifax-lad
The creation of the BOINC GUI has begun, WCG have been uploading files for the last few days in order to create the next version of BOINC
Blog/Image
The best thing is the new version of BOINC will be skinnable using XML files, which means any designers amongst us could create a team skin for the BOINC client once it is released
BOINC gains CPU capability detection
No more 3rd party programs to try and work out what instructions the CPU uses. It really works, this is from BOINC on my machine
26/06/2006 16:32:55||Processor: 1 AuthenticAMD AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+
26/06/2006 16:32:55||With CPU instructions sets: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, 3DNOW! extended, x86-64
26/06/2006 16:32:55||L1 Size=128 Ko, L2 Size=128 Ko, L3 Size=0 Ko
26/06/2006 16:32:55||Memory: 990.42 MB physical, 1.58 GB virtual
26/06/2006 16:32:55||Disk: 189.92 GB total, 172.83 GB free
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:41 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:44 pm
by Temujin
Its looking good :thumbup:
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:51 am
by UBT - PiezPiedPy
BOINC needs this type of change as it becomes more popular as more and more people will be wanting to crunch but don't know much about computers and installing software.
The more user friendly the better. As long as they keep the advanced setting for me
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:43 am
by UBT - Halifax-lad
The advanced setting will always be there just hidden in the background, select an option and the advanced section appears and the simple GUI goes away
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:14 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:45 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Should be available for testing this week/ next week