Yes, there are projects supporting SPARC. SETI is one of them.
Thank you. Yes, SIMAP (both SIMAP and HMMR) and Einstein also have Solaris / SPARC apps. (All three of which I run.) SETI has apps for, well, *everything*. I'm sure even the people who ported NetBSD to a toaster have considered running SETI on it! ;-)
http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php
Along those lines, I'm actually a bit surprised that the first BOINC project on the PS3 was *not* SETI.
What I was wondering, what kind of integer and floating point ratings do these processors get in BOINC's test? How quickly do they crunch work units?
Basically, should I pay bare minimum for an ancient refurbished Sun workstation to run the OS, and leave it off, or should I get something a little nicer and let it run BOINC? I know slower processors still get credit, but given that I pay for power for both the computer and air conditioning to cool it, I'd rather run something efficient.
Thank you.