But let's also keep in mind that even IBM's World Community Grid (WCG, the grid running Human Proteome Folding and FightAIDS@home) doesn't support platforms besides Win and Linux/x86.

And in the case of WCG, we're talking about IBM, the biggest IT company in the world, which has the resources, know-how and *marketing incentive* to support its OWN platforms (AIX and/or POWER Risc) even if they represent <5% of overall TeraFLOPS.

No, there are plans at WCG to support more OSes.

PS: I still think the 3 most pressing priorities are:

1/ installer for Win and Linux
2/ code a BigWU flag in BOINC server code and
3/ have some code-wiz to optimise the science app (like akosf did for Einstein speeding it up 4x -four-fold-)

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Your priorities. But you should respect, that other users has other priorities.

If you look in my last postings, there was a lot of work done by the different unixes on the different projects.

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