Distributed.net & Seti@Home

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I'm in SETI@Home. Last unit submitted was #4115. I may be up for a GTP team, but someone else asked me recently, so they'll need to get first call.

I actually wrote an article about SETI a while ago (it could do with a couple of new screenshots), but it's here if anyone's interested.
 
I think that Distributed and Seti@Home are basically fun projects that don't really alter the course of mankind, but they're still interesting.

I would really like to find someone that is doing a distributed computation for a possitive cause. Aids ... Cancer ... whatever research that actually benefits the human race.

~LoudMusic
 
Oh, another fun one would be distributed 3D rendering. It takes a massive amount of processor power to crank out big 3D movies like Toy Story. They should write a distributed client and have individuals cranking out the movie a frame at a time.

~LoudMusic
 
At the time I used SETI, I really didn't understand it.

I just saw this bar scanning stuff, and I figured I would get a message when I found an alien. :D
 
But no aliens, eh? That sucks. Would have been cool if you'd found an alien that wanted to do the wild thing (:

~LoudMusic
 
Originally posted by LoudMusic
I would really like to find someone that is doing a distributed computation for a possitive cause. Aids ... Cancer ... whatever research that actually benefits the human race.
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There is actuallly one that does cancer research for Oxford University - http://www.ud.com

I've been running that one for a year or 2 on a couple of different machines.

There are others as well (I think someone mentioned folding@home) but the folding@home one always had a huge memory leak so it would bring your machine down to a halt within a day or 2... The United Devices (www.ud.com) one is partnered with Distributed.net

:)
 
I have SETI running on my main computer right now. I got an old computer from my neighbor that I intend to turn into a SETIbox but I have no idea what the processor speed in it is. My guess is that it is slower than 400 mhz. I just completed my 135th unit a few seconds ago.

I'm up for making a GTP team for SETI, but I'm already apart of Macaddict's team. I have no clue what it takes to make a team on berkley's website though. I'll look into it this weekend when I have free time.
 
My RC5-72 History took a giant leap last night. I've been adding computers at work ... a couple a day. The cool thing is, the newest systems haven't submitted a full day's work yet, so even if I don't add anything for a day the number still goes up the next day (:
 
I used to seti, but once I started stressing the hell out of my pc, I had to remove it :( - it also didn't help that my sister installed crap on the machine that screwed things up.
 
Originally posted by emad
I used to seti, but once I started stressing the hell out of my pc, I had to remove it :( - it also didn't help that my sister installed crap on the machine that screwed things up.
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Format - reinstall.
 
^ haha, that's what I gotta do...I'm getting to it in a few days...Just gotta transfer about 20 gigs worth of raw data (not music - that's on my other rig) to my iPod and I'll still have about 4 gigs that'll need backing up. Not to mention the 3 dvds I still haven't gotten around to transferring to my mac for burning. Can't wait for the fresh start though. I'm gonna have it dual boot linux this time around - hopefully gentoo
 
Well at least you have somewhere to put it while you reinstall.

The way I've started doing my setups is to use about a 40GB drive partitioned to a smaller system partition and then everything else into a 'data' partition. Like 10GB and whatever is left. Then install Windows and apps on the system volume and retarget my desktop folder and My Documents folder to the data partition. Then when Windows goes nuts and I have to reinstall I just wipe that partition and don't have to worry about my data.

Though that doesn't do me any benefits if the drive itself dies, but it helps on the software side.
 
Ho-le-macral. Check out my "Yesterday" rank. And my history. That's only with two dual 2Ghz G5s. I have three more machines to add (: I think I can be in the Top 100, for the daily, over Christmas. Then maybe get into the Top 1000 overall by the end of January.
 
I think we should all fold.

It is the simulation of protien folding. I'm currently doing it. Any one interested in it?

I'd certainly start a team.
 
Originally posted by Burnout
I think we should all fold.

It is the simulation of protien folding. I'm currently doing it. Any one interested in it?

I'd certainly start a team.
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Is there a Macintosh client program for any of the folding projects? That's about all the real CPU time I have to give to any distributed project.
 
I just downloaded and started Disturbed, I think I can give it an :odd: You can't really see how you're progressing right?

I also SETI, currently working out units at roughly 3 hours each.
 
mine takes forever to do each but i have mine set to go off only during screensavers :( - it overtaxes the multi-user thing on my rig if i let it run all the time
 
Originally posted by Cobraboy
I just downloaded and started Disturbed, I think I can give it an :odd: You can't really see how you're progressing right?

I also SETI, currently working out units at roughly 3 hours each.
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It has an activity screen. When it finishes a block it tells you how long it took. Also, if you hover over the cow icon in the sys tray (next to your clock) it will tell you the current rate.

No, dnetc is not nearly as "average joe" friendly as many of the others. Afterall, it's cracking a computer encryption scheme. (:

SETI, UD, and the folding groups are all much more geared toward the general public.
 

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