Video recorded during the 2011 Asia@Home conference, the 20th and 21st March at Sinica Academia – Taipei (Taiwan).br br This Asia@home hackfest focuses on applications of citizen-based volunteer computing and volunteer sensing to earthquake science in South-East Asia. The purpose of the hackfest is to test new concepts in distributed software and hardware[…]br Click [url=] to read the entire hackfest.br br br Video High Quality 29:br [size=3][color=red]"The limits of volunteer computing" David Anderson, Space Science Laboratory, UC Berkeley[color][size]br In this talk, I'll cover: statistics on the hardware characteristics of volunteer hosts (CPU capacity, RAM, free disk, GPUs, network BW); BOINC's mechanisms for matching jobs and hosts; BOINC's mechanisms for dealing with extreme requirements; (RAM, disk, runtime); how we handle MPI apps in BOINC.