Mostly to Jack, regarding the graphics in 4.81. The ability to spin the native form is nice, but a little hard to control, in my humble opinion.

You're doing a rotation, but the center of rotation seems to be a fair distance from the molecule, which means that as I rotate, the molecule tends to swing out of the viewport.

Is there any way you can make the following three points always conincident:

The center of the viewport, the "center" of the molecule, and the center of rotation. That might make things a little more useful.

David Kim is actually the one who put in the rotation, must give him credit. I hope to fix the lines problem and add some other features over the holidays, but no promises.

I'm glad to see you guys noticed the rotation of the native. It's sort of an documented easter egg until we improve the issues that you saw with the center of rotation. You also might notice that little black outline around the chain doesn't stay in a consistent place and sometimes looks funny. This will be attended too once we are running stably again.

I thought the new font was a little harder to ready too. But it has the advantage of not requiring the glut32.dll, and also being scalable. So you can make your window larger, and you should be able to see it more clearly.

Hi genes,
The display is an Intel 82915g/gv/910gl pci Express Chipset family.(that came directly out of the device manager). I have again tried to get the graphics working, but still no go. I am at a loss.
Thanks also for the link to the thread.

Today I received my first two WU's with graphics. The WU's were distributed to two seperate machines, a n Intel 2.6 ghz celeron, and an Intel Pentium 4 dual core 3.0 ghz. The celeron is displaying the graphics perfectly with no problems. However, the dual core will not display the graphics at all. When the screensaver engages, the screen just goes blank. This happens even when I suspend everything else that is running in BOINC. I cannot start the graphics even if I try to do it manually by clicking on the 'show graphics' button.
...thought you might find that interesting.

Also, on a different topic, can you direct me to a page that will explain the screensaver in some detail, along with some of the science involved, so that I can understand what I am looking at. Thanks

I know this may sound simplistic, but, if everybody was running the optimized clients, along with optimized science apps (of course, optimized for every CPU and OS combo), there would be no way to "cheat by optimization", and the projects would get more work done. It's a win-win situation.

I'm sorry but here's a resounding 'NO'. This is a common misconception! At the moment optimized clients just affect benchmarks - they don't change how fast you process a WU - as the rosetta code is not yet open source.

So what that means is that at the moment, 1) some optimized clients geniunely try to even the playing field (ie. linux vs window), and 2) others return grossly inflated benchmark numbers (which can be considered involuntary cheating). Then, 3) there's an even more hardcore group of people who actually spend time modifying the stock or optimized clients with the sole purpose of cheating.

But, at the end of the day, they all return the same science. A WU is a WU, wether it grants the host 10 or 1000000 credits.