hereWhat is it?
It is an image that displays the online status of the schedulers of BOINC projects. When a projects is down or unreachable, it is unessessary to hit the Update or Retry buttons in your BOINC client. Especially when a project has been down, there's the risk of congestion as many try to manually connect to get more work. BOS can tell you if a project can be reached or not.
The image is intended to be placed on web sites. This way the knowledge of the schedulers online status gets spread thus when a project is out the connection attempts should go down. If you can't reach it there's no need to try.
Not only that, it's also a nice service for your web site users.