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    Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

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    by danlm ·

    What I mean is projects like Seti, Einstein, and others. Actually, I think my real question is. Is there any Tech Republic team with regard to the current projects they have going now.

    I’ve been part of the Seti project now for several years, and have just started doing the Einstein one also. There are enough projects going now to interest almost everyone here I think. Ie: Astronomy/Physics/Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Mathematics and strategy games, Biology and Medicine.

    With my new dual processor that I just bought and the fact that I made my old 1.4 AMD a FreeBSD box, I will soon be running projects on both of these machines. With tight scientific budgets, I just feel it’s a chance to help out. Besides, my machines run 24/7 anyway. Might as well do something positive with them that might make a difference.

    So, is there a Tech Republic Team here? lol
    If your interested but have never looked into it, Boinc is the application you need to participate in these projects and can be downloaded from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php. There you will also find a list of all of the projects that you can join. I must warn you though, when I compiled Boinc on my FreeBSD machine. Sucker took longer to compile then when I changed my kernal. Blew my bloody mind.

    Oh well, just curious and looking to join an existing team.

    Dan

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    • #3200510

      I used to participate in folding@home

      by stress junkie ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      I was participating in the folding@home project at Stanford Univeristy. They don’t use BOINC I stopped when the work units wouldn’t complete. I don’t know why. One day all of the jobs that they sent me aborted. I waited for a few months, downloaded their newer version, and tried again. Same result.

      So I looked around for another project. I found one that uses BOINC. The installation and configuration of the BOINC software was so confusing that I didn’t finish setting it up. I was using instructions on that particular project’s web site. I have since found the home page of the BOINC software. I might try to install it.

      • #3200486

        folding does use boinc now

        by jaqui ·

        In reply to I used to participate in folding@home

        my client version is still the old version and has never stopped working right.

        • #3227647

          I just got BOINC to run Rosetta@Home

          by stress junkie ·

          In reply to folding does use boinc now

          I found two projects researching protein folding and using the BOINC software. I signed up for the Rosetta@Home project. It’s running right now. I’m back in the medical research game.

        • #3227573

          cool

          by danlm ·

          In reply to I just got BOINC to run Rosetta@Home

          I really hope some more people get into this here. The benifits really are worth it.

          Dan

    • #3200385

      Good Post

      by dawgit ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      I’ve been looking that for some time now myself. I’ve had the SETI software for a while, and was just thinking about the BOINC set up. I just don’t have a free machine that I would say would do a good enough job. I had even thought of setting up a seperate machine with BSD, Thanks for the warning, I’ll wait now. CERN also has a project going, they’re not new to this kind of set-up. (gee, I wonder why?) Good people down there. (Good sense of Humour too.) Really Good that you brought it up, I had been wondering the same thing, but just never asked. -d
      PS. -let me know if there’s an interest in starting something please. Its’s just no fun thinking you’re the only (weird) one trying it out. -d

      • #3200355

        re: bsd setup

        by danlm ·

        In reply to Good Post

        I installed Boinc on FreeBSD 6.1 from the ports. boinc manager from /net and seti from /astro. Thankfully I belong to freebsdforums.org and found a good post about the setup from ports. I really had no issues that I know of other then it took a long time to compile. And right now it seems that the seti db is down because my windows xp machine hasn’t done anything with seti for a couple days. So, I am unser if my bsd setup is right or not.

        I will tell you this, there is an xml file that needs to be built that is not done through the ports. I had to build it manually. I found this information out beforehand though at the forums I previously mentioned. This file, so the forum post said needs to be in 3 places. Again, no information that I found in the bsd ports handbook about this. I’m pretty sure what was in the post was correct though, because I received parsing errors when I first started things. Which means, that the boinc manager definitely was looking for it. Also, when I tried to install this on FreeBSD 5.3, I had all kinds of issues. That could have been for any number of reasons though. Crap setup, that machine was a 600 mhz dell with only 256 of memory. Not alot of swap/tmp/var space. Who knows, I gave up on that machine.

        Go figure.

        • #3200343

          on SETI….

          by dawgit ·

          In reply to re: bsd setup

          I’ve heard that the project played out, it had been superceeded to a SETI-II, but I think that died a natural death too. I certainly could be wrong on that, so don’t just take my word for it. The local Uni had heavy student involvement with the project, as a good enviorment to play in as for clustering. (one of my pet project pasions thing) Anyway there are more projects out there. (more than ever) As for your machine, I believe it needs to be over the Gig mark. (something that’s keeps me held back) and BOINC must have broad-band to work. (the are other sys. that still even work on dail-up, even e-mail)

        • #3200319

          shoot, I didn’t know at the broadband

          by danlm ·

          In reply to on SETI….

          Seti is still alive though, all they did was move it over to Boinc. It’s in the same category as the Einstein project. They just no longer support the old application(I think). Up till maybe 2 days ago, I was crunching numbers for seti. That’s another reason I say it’s still alive.
          The one thing I really like is that they have brought other projects into it. medical being the primary example that I think everyone would want to assist. I just have always been fascinated with anything to do with space, that’s why I chose the projects I am involved in.

          dan

        • #3200243

          not dying a death…

          by kiltie ·

          In reply to on SETI….

          It’s just that very few of the original Seti group of users can get this dam BOINC to work!!!

          I certainly can’t, I am techie enough to be able to configure it, but I came to the conclusion that this BOINC is a Beta (or maybe alpha?) project, so it is up to them to fix the bugs, not my job.

          Problem is, they pulled the rug from under the Seti users, without checking that BOINC fully worked.
          Well maybe it did on their high end development machines, but not for the ordinary home user, which was, after all, the WHOLE IDEA behind the distributed computing project in the first place, for God’s sake!!!

          If you restrict use to the top labs, tops spec machines, you lose out on the whole of the network of distributed PCs that you had before.

          Someone high up at Berkley goofed big time, imho.

          I would dearly like to get into the projects again, I have 2 home networks, 4 machines on 24/7 and 4, or more, swapped in and out as test machines. I have the spare capacity, motivation and time to participate, but I am unable to do so ‘cos of this dam BOINC sh*t

          (btw, emails I sent to them about the problems I had went unanswered *** sigh ***)

        • #3226959

          What I ended up doing was

          by danlm ·

          In reply to not dying a death…

          When I moved over to boinc with seti, I had to re register with a new boinc account. And that is what I used. I lost all of my seti credits, but I am not really into it for that anyway. I actually have never had problems with Boinc on a windows system with either seti project or the Einstein project. It was an effort(and I’m not sure I’m done yet) to install on my FreeBSD machine. But, so far that is only creating an XML file that I found a post about. Had to change some file permissions also, but hey. It’s UNIX, I’m use to that. lol

          I was just on the seti web page, and they seem to have been having issues with their data base’s and hardware of late. At least as of 09/08. They did not have a posting that everything was corrected as of yet.

          I think the way boinc is designed is as follows. there is a boinc manager that controls all the projects you can attach to, and then there are smaller clients for each project which can be beta/alpha/stable. That’s the impression I got from my install on the FreeBSD box, that and the way they break out the description of each project you can attach to.

          Not sure though.

          dan

        • #3227644

          Ahah, I see

          by kiltie ·

          In reply to What I ended up doing was

          Thanks for the info Dan, seems I was part right, maybe I let my frustration slip through a bit there, hope I made my point (just wish those bozos at Berkley could read it – but hey, I guess they don’t read emails either ;-))

          As I am going down the Linux route now, I think I’ll hold off on this BOINC thingy until I get a Linux system I feel comfortable with, as it is the distros keep coming so thick and fast with “improvements” I haven’t settled on any particular one yet, but Puppy and Knoppix lead the field so far.

          On the other hand, I just had a second thought, maybe I could use BOINC on the spare Windows systems, as I have to keep the odd machine with 98SE, 2K and XP, just so I can provide support for others.

        • #3227569

          lol Kiltie, I’m reaching my frustration stage with this Unix Boinc

          by danlm ·

          In reply to Ahah, I see

          I’m getting computer errors(real descriptive hu) on that machine when I check my statistics on Seti. And I really haven’t seen any good post’s with possible solutions yet in my searches. I don’t know if I have a hardware issue(video card), or if I built the app_conf.xml file wrong. Who knows, I guess it’s time for me to join the seti bulletin boards.

          I wish to hell I could find a damn log so I could see if anything is in them to direct me. Who knows.

          Chuckle, I’m still crunching on my Windows Machine though. I was just just hoping to run this on two machines. Haven’t given up though. Getting close, but not there yet.

          Dan

        • #2500015

          BOINC does not require broadband

          by frankiesmum ·

          In reply to on SETI….

          Started on a WIN98 machine with SETI about 5 years ago, migrated to a WINXP machine 2005 adding Einstein, Protein Predictor and Climate Prediction all on dial up – set up your BOINC preferences for dialup, see the forums for help.
          Got broadband in December 2006.
          Have been running Climate Prediction on it’s own for about 6 months (recommended because the file sets take several thousand hours to crunch) and I wanted to get at least one file set completed as I had some teething troubles with the first few file sets.
          Now need to update the BOINC client and that is not recommended while you’re in the middle of a file set so roll on May when the second file set is due to complete.

        • #2500006

          For a more hands on distributed project, try Stardust

          by frankiesmum ·

          In reply to BOINC does not require broadband

          http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

          A Berkeley project where you can donate use of your eyes by scanning slides measured in microns via a Virtual Microscope.

          Cheers

    • #3226938

      I think you started something…

      by dawgit ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      I sure didn’t know anyone here was interested in these projects. It’s nice to hear that there are some techi-type people here at the TR. (oh, I’m gona get nuked on that one) maybe the TR can set up comunnity computing, and clustering as a catagory in the discussions list. How aboutit TR? -d

      • #3226904

        I thought, with the science articles they do

        by danlm ·

        In reply to I think you started something…

        Like, name the next space ship. The changing of the definition of planets. And a few other featured articles I’ve seen here that there would be some interest in the area of home distributed computing.

        I mean, bunch of geeks with some kick a$$ machines could crank out some serious calculations if we teamed up.

        And truthfully, I could join the FreeBSD team or something like that. But, I’d rather it be a team where I talk to the members who have common interests as mine. Lol, even if I don’t always agree with their politics.

        Dan

    • #3228704

      arg–university network restrictions

      by crabbyabby86 ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      i started contributing to the seti project before i came to university, since i leave my pc on at all hours anyway, and then when i got here i discovered they don’t allow it over the school network.

      super lame.

      • #3228614

        I’m surprised to be truthful, in that universities started this

        by danlm ·

        In reply to arg–university network restrictions

        I doubt that there is THAT much traffic of reporting and getting work that it should be a bandwidth issue. Considering how many people download music(me, who me. naaa, never). The only thing I can think of is security issue’s, but even that I don’t understand. It’s not like its p2p or anything.
        Has anyone questioned them on their reasons??? Security, bandwidth, ???

        Dan

        • #3228407

          Slippery slope

          by stress junkie ·

          In reply to I’m surprised to be truthful, in that universities started this

          I guessing that the people who made this policy did so in order to avoid having to make decisions about what specifically would run and what would not be allowed to run. It’s just easier to make a broad policy. I can’t blame them. For one thing you never really REALLY know what these projects are doing. You may think that you are processing raw data for SETI or for research into how proteins fold but in fact you could be donating your computer to processing verbal telephone conversations for the NSA. You just don’t really know. So the university avoids these kinds of issues, and issues about whose program runs and whose program doesn’t run by creating a simple broad policy.

        • #3228274

          chuckle, even if you and I dont agree on NSA

          by danlm ·

          In reply to Slippery slope

          When it comes to a University, which has people from all walks of life and politics. That may be the best way to deal with it when their is uncertainty. Or at least when they have uncertainty.

          But I would really be shocked if the NSA was willing to send out work unit’s on phone conversations.

          Now, maybe the Department of Defense with some type of attack scenario with all the variables. Or, a new type of virus. Yea, that I could see.

          Dan
          My bloody UNIX box still isn’t crunching numbers. I really need to spend a day tracking this down. I may have a hardware conflict. Love my UNIX box, but this is becoming a serious pain in my a$$. Other then locking down my log ins to use public/private keys. I haven’t put in all my defense mechanisms yet to stop the bloody brute force attacks I get on a regular basis. I knew I was going to have issues, just didn’t think they would be this long running.

        • #3227520

          Funny that…

          by dawgit ·

          In reply to chuckle, even if you and I dont agree on NSA

          in a way they (DOD) kind of started it. (with the first DARPA-Net) The DOE is in there though, if wana play with Nukes. :0

      • #3228483

        What Uni was that?

        by dawgit ·

        In reply to arg–university network restrictions

        or, can you say? That’s not the attitude here. I think that they’re looking for users, and uses to put the sys to work. (one can’t justify the cost of baby-super computer if there’s no use or users) -Not that there’s a shortage of projects, but most don’t run 24/7. (the students have to party too!, this is Germany.)

        • #3227086

          icky rant

          by crabbyabby86 ·

          In reply to What Uni was that?

          I really shouldn’t say anything bad about the university that pays me to study, since I wouldn’t be in school if I didn’t have a scholarship, and I’m going to rant anyway. As far as which one it is… let’s just say the University of San Diego was rather upset that we swiped http://www.usd.edu out from under them.

          It’s really the “Information Technology Services” office that hasn’t impressed me at all, starting from day one–when I discovered their many network lock-downs and Symantec AntiVirus requirements. They seem to be rather particular about keeping their distance from the computer science department, which doesn’t help their case at all. They are basically the masters of our Internet access and nothing else. The helpdesk hardly helps at all (in fact, I have talked to many people who claim the helpdesk HURT things even more), and even though they are in charge of the TechFellows program (a work/scholarship thing where students who are mildly tech-savvy help out professors in a variety of departments), they usually delegate students to helping computer-illiterate teachers build web pages.

          And the system for university web pages is pretty disgusting. WebCM. Make me barf. It’s like the web-based bastard love child of FrontPage and NVU. Difficult to navigate, limited functionality. It’s static, it’s stifling, I just don’t use it. (It also doesn’t allow for editing meta tags, and they *wonder* why the site’s search function doesn’t seem to work.)

          I’ve offered to build a web-based data management app for a student organization I’m in, but I’m developing it off-site on my personal web space because ITS has a big problem with letting anyone work with server side scripting. The faculty advisor for this organization sent them an email last week with all the lovely acronyms I need (though I tried to be clear that all I really need is PHP and a MySQL database–and the rest, stuff like PEAR’s DB_DataObject are simply frills that would make life easier), but we have yet to hear a response. I am most interested in finding out whether they are really here to serve us or restrict us. This request for my organization is going to be a deal-breaker.

          OH. And no helpdesk on weekends. They close at 5pm Friday and don’t open again until 8am Monday. That’s a rant in itself.

          Ugh. If the helpdesk was competent I’d have no complaints and only the highest praise for my school, and I’m happy to boast that. It just makes life difficult when computer support is the main area lacking.

          On the other hand, the computer science department is fabulous. I wouldn’t trade my experience in it for anything. I’ve already (I just started my sophomore year) had more opportunity to get involved than I suspect I would have ever had if I followed through with Yale. I’m an officer of our ACM chapter and I work both on the bioinformatics team and as a tutor for introductory Java. We take care of our own servers and workstations. We produce spectacular software engineers, so I already have quite a number professional contacts. At the age of 19 I feel like I’ve already made it, and all I have to do is enjoy whatever else comes to me.

          I’d still like to help out SETI, but to be perfectly honest I hadn’t even thought about the project for months before I spotted this discussion. I hate to paint a bad picture of technology at my campus–ITS may be pretty worthless, but my department is spectacular. I kind of hate to leave out that distinction.

          Wow. So I totally needed to get all that off my chest. Thanks guys.

    • #3227557

      No chit, It looks like I got the sob to work

      by danlm ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      It was a config file error like I was thinking. I was cutting and pasting from postings I had found, and I had an incorrect value with regard to the seti program itself that crunches the numbers. If its what I think it is, it was pointing at an application that didn’t even exist.

      Ya know, I wonder if I can find a complete document for setting this up on Unix and how to build the config files. It would be really nice for one place to look.

      Damn, I’m happy now. Chuckle, now lets see if I screwed everything up by putting in the pfctl firewall. Shouldn’t, Im allowing access for the port required.

      Dan

    • #3227455

      Try the WCG’s FightAids@Home

      by kym yeoward ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      You may like to check FightAids@Home and the Human Proteome Folding Project at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp

      Have been running the WCG’s Rosetta software at home almost daily for 18 months, with no problems.

      So – take the plunge, the water’s great !

      Yogi – aka Outback Mick
      Alice Springs NT Australia
      http://www.outbackmick.go.dyndns.org
      http://www.thealice.com.au

      • #3227055

        Same Here

        by acracker ·

        In reply to Try the WCG’s FightAids@Home

        Yeah I’ve been running the World Community Grid Agent on my computer and others for about 20 months now. It’s a great program and it makes me proud to be a part such a beneficial distributed computing network. I’ve also convinced some of my friends to join and they like it too. Check it out at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org

    • #3227409

      See now, if all us geeks banded together

      by danlm ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      We could kick some serious butt with this home distributed computing. And I can’t think of a better group of people to do it, basically we would be setting examples for the less informed. And would be able to help them.

      Come on TR, this is your chance to do a community serve here.

      chuckle, sounded good eh.

      I think I’m going to post a blog entry to everything I did to get seti up and running so that someone else doesn’t have to fight this battle. FreeBSD only has two ports, Einstein and seti. And I would like to load Einstein next. Once I get both projects running, Ill do a full install guide from ports. And try to do a full explanation of that bloody app_info.xml file.

      dan

      • #3227361

        Great Dan!!!

        by kiltie ·

        In reply to See now, if all us geeks banded together

        Be nice to learn from someone who has already done it, not that it’ll be copying as such, I’ll still have to ‘port it to other distros and their quirks, but the pointers will be useful.

        Agree, sure will be great if TR formed a group to co-operate on this sort of distributed project. Back in the old days, I used to check the stats on how much CPU time the big boys were putting in, some had massive systems, for example, using multiple Sun Microsystems workstation’s spare capacity to do some really mean number crunching, I mean YEARS worth of CPU time in a few weeks elapsed time, instead of my paltry 100s of hours in a few months.

        Are you offering to co-ordinate?
        Count me in, I’ll dedicate half my home network of around 8 PCs to full time analysis. The others can do some part time stuff, such as the Seti screensaver, but I have to keep some machines for other things 😉

      • #3227839

        a pre-Thank-You for that.

        by dawgit ·

        In reply to See now, if all us geeks banded together

        Now that would be really nice of you. I jsut don’t have the time right now, or I’d offer help. I could join you in doing some TR docs. later, when I catch up with myself on some ongiong projects. (that’s if, of course you’d need or want it) -d

        • #3227795

          lol, ill add it to my list

          by danlm ·

          In reply to a pre-Thank-You for that.

          Actually, the reason I wouldn’t mind doing it is because I just set up this UNIX box. I have basically documented everything I have done. Install paths, config file options, the whole shebang. Unlike windows, I reformat and reload my UNIX box very rarely. So I just don’t remember how I went about things a lot of times. And the boinc stuff, I was going to do it anyway for me. I’ll just do it in a much cleaner fashion for everyone else.

          And for those people that think I can’t type, spell, or phrase worth twit(they are right). I’ll have my girlfriend who is a teacher proof read it for me before I finaly post it. lol

          Dan

        • #3227786

          Sounds good to me

          by dawgit ·

          In reply to lol, ill add it to my list

          I’d do the same with the pruf reader, except than it would come out in German. -d

    • #3227742

      I had the same dilema about 4 yrs. ago, Dan.

      by suddenimpact ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      Dan, I have a question for you to ask yourself and only you will be able to make the decision. The question is the same question I asked myself about 4 yrs. ago. The question I asked myself was “How can I benefit mankind in the best way”? In other words, which project would be of the most benefit and would give me the most satisfaction that I did something for mankind before my death. I came up with 2 projects from http://www.grid.org. They are the cancer project and the rosetta project (DNA breakdown). So I have 3 PCs working on both.

      Good luck with your decision.

      Dennis

      • #3227712

        to be truthful Deinnis

        by danlm ·

        In reply to I had the same dilema about 4 yrs. ago, Dan.

        I started doing these projects because of a fascination that I have always had with outer space. I never really was a trekkie other then I thought that some of the crew looked great in short skirts. But I still browse the NASA web site on a regular basis, including some of the children sites that have spawned off it. Mainly Hubble. Where some people have pictures of their children or other things as their desk top wallpappers. Mine have always been pictures of the stars.

        I have always thought that anything so wide and beautiful as our universe could not contain just one form of intelligent life. When I look to the stars, its like looking at my imagination and thoughts. It’s never ending, and there is always something new to find, to learn, and to explore.

        So my participation in these projects has nothing to do with how I can best benefit mankind. It has more to do with how can I take this fascination of and explore it further.

        How can I best benefit mankind? I don’t know. I always felt that was best answered in the following way. By being honest, respect others, doing the best I can do at everything I attempt, listening even when I don’t agree, not criticising just for the sake of criticising, being able to recognize when I am wrong and admitting it. If I can accomplish a small number of what I have listed, then I think I am benefiting man kind. Because those are qualities that are no longer in large abundance which help to make this little planet we call home a better place to live.

        God, what a line of chit. I just rolled up my pants. Honest to god. Oh yea, did I mention that being able to laugh at oneself is a wonderful thing. There is nothing wrong with it in my mind, nothing at all.

        Dan

    • #3227146

      FightAIDS@Home

      by kimberlytay ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      Hi, I’m part of WCG’s FightAIDS@Home project. I’m just a university student, currently doing a research on Grid Technology, and my lecturer recommended me to try out one of the Grid projects in order to have a “feel” of it. Well, I can say that I’m glad to be part of it (FightAIDS project) in terms of “donating” my pc resources to the scientists out there 🙂

      • #3227014

        Check the consumer issues too

        by kym yeoward ·

        In reply to FightAIDS@Home

        G’day Kimberley.

        Good to see you’ve joined the WCG – I joined it after seeing a story on the BBC’s website early last year.

        Some thought on grid technology – well it’s not just the technology & marketing – on the user side, there are also legal issues in consumer protection and privacy. E.g. will running the processor at 100% damage my PC, what access does the WCG software have to other areas of my data, how well am I protected from phishing attacks & trojans/ zombie software, will the software & its’ results be used solely for public benefit, are there any consumer representaives on the WCG board, what consumer protection jurisdiction & legislation does the WCG fall under – et al.

        See the WCG forums – esp the New Users forum – for my previous concerns.

        I use the WCG software daily & it runs well – & it’s good to see that world leaders IBM & Scripps have board representation too – but I’d also like to some of the worls’d major PC user groups (e.g. Boston, London & Melbourne) contributing too.

        Also, perhaps a university consumer law centre in the US / UK / Canada /Aust might like to look at developing legal studies research in this emerging area.

    • #3227134

      Finally

      by hdride ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      I had been doing this for several years (the SETI@home thingy) and now through this article I have started again. A small contribution but what the heck if it’s on it might as well be doing something, right?

    • #3227133

      Cancer Research

      by maseaver ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      After my best friend of over 25 years was diagnosed (and has since passed away) with Pancreatic cancer, I started using the Grid.org Cancer Research screen saver. They are also involved in the Human Proteome Folding Project. The back-end is powered by the United Devices Grid MP platform. I’ve turned on several of my friends to this as well. It’s the least I could do…

    • #3227100

      Since the beginning

      by jeffdewitt ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      I’ve been involved in SETI@home since the beginning, it’s a great project and the grandfather of distributed computing.

      I really liked the old SETI screensaver better than the BONIC one, the old one looked like something you would see on a screen on the TNG Enterprise, the BONIC version looks like a cartoon.

      Jeff DeWitt

    • #3227076

      Just Wondering

      by aaronjg77 ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      Anybody read “The State of Fear”?

    • #3227048

      I’m not familiar with all the programs listed here

      by danlm ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      But, I think it’s great that they are there.

      Think about how many home computers their really are, and all that computing power basically going to waist. Specially when people go to bed, and leave the computer on anyway.

      So, if you have a favor it program your a part of. Please post a link, I tend on building a blog on this I think. And I don’t want to leave any program out. I think I’ll structure it like this: Introduction to home distributed computing, and how it can help. List off the many different programs that there are that people can get involved in, broken down by applications. Ie, boinc, wgp???? List off programs underneath each, and what they are trying to accomplish with the computing. And then maybe do a second blog on what I know about the install part with regard to boinc and seti/Einstein. Both windows and FreeBSD. Also, maybe list off some of the browser add ins that people can use also.

      Doubt if anyone will read the blog, but I will be using it for a link in some other forums that I’m a part of.

      Dan

      Chuckle, I think I will change my signature for here.

      Geeks unite, join a home distributed project and help to change the world.

      lol

    • #3227005

      used to but stopped

      by j.e.taylor ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      Used to do boinc, with a couple of projects, but the rosetta stone project used to take control over the others. very rude. So I stopped it all. Screw ’em . If they can’t find the money to buy their own CPU cycles, then that’s telling you something…like they are a useless waste of time.

    • #3204546

      Folding for Stanford is good also

      by ff_matt ·

      In reply to Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?

      I’ve been running folding@home for a while, check that one out also. I like Stanford better than Berkeley.

      http://folding.stanford.edu/

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