<grinch mode on>

Let's debunk some of the grandiose aura of this "RNA WORLD" thing...

"Rechenkraft.net e.V. research facility" is simply some members of a DC team with a server or two either in someones apartment or a co-lo site somewhere in Germany (more likely, since yoyo talks about "renting" another server). There is no "facility" - no pictures of a modernistic lab or ivy-covered science building.

They have no connection to any scientific endeavor - no university, no visible principle scientist, not even a grad student doing his thesis for which he needs this research done.

They seemed to have picked an existing program and wrapped it in BOINC, to do research for which there is no current customer.

They set this thing up, made a pitch for it at the BOINC Pan-Galactic Conference (don't get me started on DA's obvious megalomania), poked at the app for a few months, then imported all the BOINC-wide teams, so now everyone in the BOINC universe is ready and anxious to participate.

But - it isn't ready. They can only let one user per team participate, and it has to be the team founder. No chance for a team to assign one selected active user.

The first sort-of live test falls flat on it's face, because this thing is installed on the same server as yoyo's other wrapper efforts, and somehow the "yoyo@home" project has been assimilated into this Rechenkraft.net e.V. research facility entity.


Now - they want the public to fund this this with thing by donating so they can "rent" (?) a server and bandwidth for one year. What happens at the end of that year, if the apps aren't running, and they haven't been able to sell any tangible results to anyone? another donation campaign?

Maybe we should all just pay them to add BOINC credits to our account, because that's all that's happening here, folks! They are selling credits!

<grinch mode off>


Have at it, moderators.