distributed computing projects

madchaz · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 2:59 pm Post subject: distributed computing projects

I know there was a seti specific tread a while back, but I was curious what people use, or if they don't participate in any, why?

so do you work on any? why? why not?

Personaly, I participate in distributed.net (www.distributed.net)

wish we could have it in portage, but they don't like giving the whole source code.

I work on that one mostly because of personal interest in the encryption
testing project.
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reillyeon · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 44 Location: Boston (ish)

Distributed.net is in portage. The ebuild just downloads from the distributed.net servers.

app-misc/dnetc

lisa · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 4:04 pm Post subject:

I used to do F@H, but it had a nasty habit of halting my system with an icky stack dump, so I scrapped that.

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hensan · l33t Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 868 Location: Sweden

I've been running the distributed.net client for about 4 years now.

Unne · l33t Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 616

I run FAH at night while I sleep or whenever I'm away from the computer. I wouldn't even bother except that it's a worthy cause. I don't really consider seti or distributed.net a worthy cause. At least, not as worthy as FAH.

klarnox · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2003 4:11 pm Post subject:

I run F@H when I'm not working at my machine. It seems like a more beneficial cause than the other choices.

chizu · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 127

I run the neo project (http://www.theneoproject.com/) on most of my computers, and f@h on my desktop computer.

digicosm · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 90

I used to be a huge SETI@Home fan, but I soon realized that they have more than enough CPU power to satisfy their needs. Now I'm running Folding@home. It seems more worthwhile, and the application really takes full advantage of your CPU power (e.g. Gromacs core).

dol-sen · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 2:54 am Post subject:

No mention of zetagrid yet. not even in your poll! There a quite a few gentooers participating. When I last checked the gentoo team (Micheal Imhof) was at the number 2 position for work units processed in the team stats. There seem to be less people running it lately though and our processing lead is slipping.
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Duck-Billed Platypus · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 3:11 am Post subject:

Seti@home

I'm thinking about this thing about Mersenne primes (spelling correct?).

I currently still use Windows...
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Sarah · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 82

I've been running Zetagrid for over 5 months now. "We are Michael Imhof"

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shadow255 · Guru Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 412

Zetagrid.
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Abraxas · l33t Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 814

I was running zetagrid but my fan had a heart attack because of it (laptop) and now the keys that are directly above the processor are not working properly because of the heat. This is the second time this has happened in 6 months. Looks like it is time to buy yet another fan and keyboard.

Vagabond · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 192

I used to run zetagrid a lot but I gave up on it recently since I've been doing a lot of C++ development on my computer and G++ is slow enough without Zetagrid eating some CPU cycles too.

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Mpemba Effect · Apprentice Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 156

Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute protein folding http://www.distributedfolding.org/

panserg · Apprentice Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 188

distcc is my favorite distributed project

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sireyessire · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:06 am Post subject:

I vote seti@home because it is the first one i ran.
Actually, i am running both seti and folding under the GLUE team

I have heard about zetagrid and the second place of gentoo but it doesn't run on my computer

(and three of distributed programs + dist-cc would be a little hard

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Redeeman · l33t Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 958 Location: Portugal

i run seti because it simply owns! i have done 523 units!

ColeSlaw · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject:

Folding@home for the GLUE team. Mostly because I have a family history of some of the diseases it has a chance to cure, so there is a little personal interest. My Grandfather is actually suffering from one right now. Need to help all I can there.
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ank · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 5:02 pm Post subject:

I run Folding@Home for Slo-Tech team. I start folding for that team long before i install Gentoo. Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 34

http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=10824

gentoo_lan · Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 10:00 pm Post subject:

Zetagrid.

Roguelazer · Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:26 am Post subject:

F@H Team 12810
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busfahrer · n00b Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 57 Location: Germany

I have run different projects in the past, currently I'm running Seventeen or Bust on my main box and F@H on my secondary box, both for Ars Technica.
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