Server and funding constraints:
BOINC infrastructure needs maintenance.

If funding is tight or there's no active grant that relies on BOINC computation, the system can sit idle.

Not a lot of.
One of the main carateristic of boinc infrastructure is cheap

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Server and funding constraints:
BOINC infrastructure needs maintenance.

If funding is tight or there's no active grant that relies on BOINC computation, the system can sit idle.

Not a lot of.
One of the main carateristic of boinc infrastructure is cheap

But to take the human time to create the tasks and analyze the result outside of what they are already paid to do....i think that is where it is at. Why have so many biomed projects gone silent if it is so cheap?

But to take the human time to create the tasks and analyze the result outside of what they are already paid to do....i think that is where it is at.

I don't think that IPD has problem with money/grants..

Why have so many biomed projects gone silent if it is so cheap?

'cause, a lot of times, the team of these projects is made up of just one person :-P
A lot of "temporary" projects, for example, are done by students for their PHD
The projects with more that 2/3 people, are running for decades (Rosetta, Einstein, Milky, etc)

P.S. Also the maintenance of a cluster needs a lot of human effort...
P.P.S In my humble opinion, it's a question of will, of "believing" in the boinc infrastructure

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