It's a very sad day for the BOINC community. On the one hand we have projects like Ramsey@home, Einstein@home and ABC@home that are developed and run by skilled, community minded people who have a conscience. They make the effort to keep their science app, work units and policies efficient, thereby reducing wasted effort.

On the other hand we have bad apples like LHC@home that make the whole barrel stink and rot. The LHC@home project knowingly and purposefully tosses 25% of everyone's contribution of CPU time, hardware and electricity into the waste basket. They don't receive any benefit from that 25% waste that they cannot get from a 0 waste policy and practice. The 25% would be acceptable if it could not be avoided but it can be avoided. All the tools and technology exist to eliminate the waste but the project admins refuse to even admit the problem exists. What's even sadder is that they now censor posts in the LHC@home forums that even mention the issue and they promote lies that cover up the waste.

The 25% waste is a direct result of LHC@home's policy of issuing 5 initial replications for a quorum of 3, the 5/3 policy for short. The 5/3 policy was needed and justifiable years ago when BOINC server and client were both rather primitive. Today, however, new features and functionality in BOINC client and server allow a 3/3 policy (initial replication of 3 for a quorum of 3) that would give LHC@home everything they have now plus other benefits they don't have but need.

If you have computers attached to LHC@home, detach them and donate your precious CPU time, hardware and electricity instead to a project run by competent people who need your donation and do what they can to conserve the resources that ALL the BOINC projects need.