who knows, but he made up his mind to leave. so that is the end of him until he cools off and maybe comes back.

It looks like aginghippie has crunched a very impressive 27,095,192 credits for Rosetta. Looking at the list of his computers active in the last 30 days, the PPC machines have a total of only 17,666 credits. That's less than 1/1000 of his total.

I don't see what the fuss is about.

If a person was to get really dumb and build a computer JUST TO DO CRUNCHING, what sort of processor and OS would that person use?

Apple? Linux? Command line on a Linux box?

I would use Ubuntu Linux, it is free and not that hard to set up. In fact I have done it several times now. Currently I have 2 different machines running it and they both crunch just fine. Here is the link to my ramblings about it http://malariacontrol.net/forum_thread.php?id=642

Here is a link to Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/

The only hard part was thru the Synaptic package loader thingy, I am NOT a Linux guy, but even it was not that hard. It is just a click here, click there, click here again and there is Boinc. Once you get it up and running there is one key, do not click the X at the top of the screen in Linux, it actually stops the program, but since it is a cruncher only, just minimize it and it runs just fine.
Here is a link to the 2 pc's:
http://abcathome.com/show_host_detail.php?hostid=65177
and
http://abcathome.com/show_host_detail.php?hostid=65041

If you really want to you can even set the pc up so you can see and check on it thru your Windows machines, I have not done that. I have about 15 machines running here at home and those 2 have their own keyboards and mice connected all the time. I only have one monitor and a long cable that I move around to whatever pc I am looking at. I use that in my basement setup, upstairs I use RAdmin to keep tabs on all my Windows pc's, RAdmin is like VNC.

As far as cpu's go I would use AMD quad cores if I could. In fact I asked for, and got, money for Christmas so will be looking for more crunchers to replace some of my single cores machines. I found this:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4362097&CatId=3586 it is an AMD quad core 9550 with mother board, cpu and on board video for $219.99. I have enough memory, hard and cd drives and a case laying around to make this worthwhile to me. In fact I may be buying 2 of them! I need to put the money in the bank first though. There is no rebate, which is the only problem I have found with Tiger, they are VERY VERY picky on their rebate details!! I have a friend that sent the stuff in to them for a rebate and they asked him to resend the original UPC code because they damaged it upon opening his letter, how can he resend it when you only get one per box? No they would NOT accept a copy. They denied his rebate, he was not a happy camper!!