Massive Computing grid projects

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How many of TE fellows are participating in massive computing grid projects?
Its a really good way of utilizing your cpu power (overclocked ones especially :cool2: ) to do something worthwhile for the humanity.
Which projects are you participating in?
Is there a tech enclave team in any of these projects?

I'm currently participating in the following projects -

1. World Community Grid (boinc and united devices)
2. SETI@Home

If you haven't explored this domain, go here

World Community Grid - Home
SETI@home
BOINC

We can make a difference to the world, and this is the simplest way to go....
Especially when so many ppl in TE have great machines at their disposal...

Cheers!
 
SETI@Home is still running? Thought it was dead long ago. I used to run that 6 years back. Now im mainly with Folding@Home. Its a project promoted by Stanford and run by Vijay Pande. It focuses on cancer research and protein folding. More details in the link below

Folding@Home Distributed Computing

Raghu.
 
SETI@Home has ~700k users......i know abt F@H, but i'm waiting for nvidia to enable support for its 7xxx series cards....just like ati's x19xx series cards......
 
Eddy , we had something like this while we were on TA right? what is the site again? I would like to contribute again! :)

remember those ranking pages? ..
 
I have requested our Admins to have a section dedicated to this on TE and a TE team a while ago. But looks like due to busy schedule its still not implemented. I am sure it will be soon enough.

I was crunching for SETi for 4 years. And not crunching for WCG. Hope more and more people join in these projects.

As of now indian contribution to grid project is nothing but pathetic. On WCG there are hardly 1250 users. And most of them are the project devloper IBM's employees.

This is shameful to be honest.

Thats why my signature says what it says ;)
 
I read last week that funky made a WCG rig and installed it on my PC then. Also installed it at 4 more PCs at work... all running 24X7 :)
 
Funky said:
I have requested our Admins to have a section dedicated to this on TE and a TE team a while ago. But looks like due to busy schedule its still not implemented. I am sure it will be soon enough.
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Does the busy schedule have anything to do with posting pjs on FE? :P I vote we get some sort of DC team running.

Funky said:
I was crunching for SETi for 4 years. And not crunching for WCG. Hope more and more people join in these projects.
As of now indian contribution to grid project is nothing but pathetic. On WCG there are hardly 1250 users. And most of them are the project devloper IBM's employees.
This is shameful to be honest.
Thats why my signature says what it says ;)
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Thats because there are a lot of people are doing F@H. With the addition of PS3 client their user base has exploded a lot.

rPOk said:
SETI@Home has ~700k users......i know abt F@H, but i'm waiting for nvidia to enable support for its 7xxx series cards....just like ati's x19xx series cards......
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Very unlikely considering that their 8xxx series has been released.

Raghu.
 
No.. net connection only needed once every few hours. eg for WCG it typically downloads a 1mb packet... takes a few hours to compute... uploads the results and then downloads the next packet. On slow computer like my P4 2.8 @ office, it will take around 18 hrs to computer a Muscular Dystrophy packet....

Also once it completes the computation and internet is not available... it will automatically upload the results once the connection is restored.
 
on my sys, generally following time is taken for the wcg tasks -

muscular dystrophy - 6-8hrs

proteome folding 2 - 3.5hrs

genome comparison - 1hr

aids - 4 - 5hrs
 
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