I haven't delved into it much. In particular, I have not sought out the answer to "Does the launch of the WST mean that the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) will be retired and deactivated?" ... It seems to me that if HST is still usable, they could benefit from running both simultaneously until HST is not longer usable. But then, I also favor investing money in rebuilding the big Arecibo radio telescope ... and adding smaller additional radio telescopes. When I visited the site, I left before dark, but if the site is dark enough and has clear skies often enough, I'd even be in favor of adding an advanced optical telescope.
If nothing else, they could add HST to the NASA Goldstone site's educational programs (I think schoolkids get to aim and monitor a radio telescope and get a lesson on interpreting the data received). I also still think some kind of networked "radiotelescope at home" project similar to the "SETI@Home" project (which runs on #BOINC) could be great for citizen science.
This is a Raspberry Pi that has been running #BOINC for less than two months. It makes me wonder how they allocate "credit". I know that many people have run BOINC on some powerful hardware.
I did read somewhere that persistent problems (overheating?) with the XU4 led to a stripped down version with a giant heat sink case being sold as the network storage oriented #Odroid #HC1 and Odroid #HC2 devices. I think that was either on the Ameridroid site or in the Amazon descriptions for the "home cloud" devices.
(Note: I've lived in this house 6.5 years and have not run BOINC at all until today, so being that high in the stats with the old equipment I used says something about the difficulty attracting and retaining people who'll devote some spare resources to research projects. There's also the possibility that BAM / BOINCStats only cover people who are specifically participating in that activity.)
I think I'll repurpose the other XU4 and attach it to BOINC through #Gridcoin. (I think this will show up as a separate account in the stats.)
I think that is a good idea, and I'm planning to spin up a #BOINC node with my own XU-4 soon. Or maybe an older #Raspberry_Pi (the !RasPi 4 seems a little expensive right now, and I already have a Raspberry Pi model 2B and a model 3B that I can repurpose).
@musicman No. SETI@Home is "paused", but people that ran it will have #BOINC installed (it is one of many projects that use BOINC), so someone wanting to participate in Rosetta@Home could just add that project in BOINC while they await the revival of SETI. (The B is Berkeley and I think the NC is Network Computing; beyond that, I don't know.)
Interesting that both #Folding_at_Home and #SETI_at_Home are out of work-units right now. (Well S@H is on pause while they process the backlog of finished work-units.)
Which reminds me: I need to go out into the garage and see whether there's an old unused computer that can be pressed into service with #BOINC and #Folding_at_Home. I know that hackers.town has a team on F@H trying to find molecules that could become part of a vaccine for COVID-19 / #2019-nCoV. ( I'd love to get back into #SETI_at_Home, but I've heard they suspended the project while they catch up with the work-units submitted by participants over the years. )