BOINC - Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computing

[Sid]

I'm involved with this program, some worthwhile stuff being done.

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Open-source software for volunteer computing and desktop grid computing. (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/)

Choosing BOINC projects (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php)

[Sid]

World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Our success depends on individuals - like you - collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor.


World Community Grid (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp)



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[Sid]

Rosetta@home needs your help to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases.

By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don't need it you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn't possibly attempt without your help.

You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's (See our Disease Related Research (http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_medical_relevance.php) for more information).

Please join us in our efforts! Rosetta@home is not for profit.



Rosetta@home (http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/)


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[Sid]

Looking for an reason for that computer upgrade you have been considering?


Perhaps what is most exciting about BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/), however, is how the software is growing and evolving. As the number of projects using BOINC increases, so does the power that participants are granted by participating. With more choices, BOINC users make their own decisions about which areas of science are the most important. Home to the most popular distributed computing projects, BOINC has already shown its ability to attract researchers in a variety of different fields.

One particularly exciting project on the horizon is called the PlanetQuest Collaboratory, which will analyze telescope imagery, searching for variations in brightness of stars. These variations might suggest the existence of an orbiting planet.

You can do these multiple, incredibly exciting things, looking for pulsars, looking for extraterrestrial life, explains Anderson. It’s real science and it’s happening on your computer.

Through distributed computing, BOINC is truly enabling everyone to get involved in cuttingedge scientific research. Now, only one question remains: Who wouldn’t want to do this?




Distributing Science (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/distributing_science_final.pdf)

[Sid]

Interested in doing a stress test on your new computer?

Here's the diagnostic on my Sony Viao [Intel P4] (http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=27220) and my Intel Core 2 Duo (http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=27025)


As you can see, they will soon be using slow P4's for bathroom tile.







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[Sid]

Scientific research that could not be done otherwise needs your spare computer power.

BOINC runs in the background on my computers and causes no slowdowns or problems.

Your computer is using only a tiny percentage of it's available resources, donate the rest to aid in understanding the underlying science.

Your computer is capable of more than internet surfing and playing solitaire. . . .


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[2nd Chance]

Scientific research that could not be done otherwise needs your spare computer power.

BOINC runs in the background on my computers and causes no slowdowns or problems.

Your computer is using only a tiny percentage of it's available resources, donate the rest to aid in understanding the underlying science.

Your computer is capable of more than internet surfing and playing solitaire. . . .


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I have yet to find a program that i feel is worthy of my computers resources. Even working on dna, genes or what have you, are not worthy projects in my opinion. Sure they will eventually cure diseases but this information will also be used to make the Frankensteins of the future.
I will reserve my 580 watts for fancy 3d screen savers.

[Sid]

"BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/)" is a funny name for a system that allows you to help make the world a little better place by donating the unused processor capacity of your personal computer to very large scale science projects, including medical research projects.

Most people don't know it, but most of the time your computer is on well over 90% of its capacity goes unused, even when you are working at your machine.

When you run "BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/)", that computer capacity is combined with capacity from other personal computers (http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/051212-10.html) (over half a million of them right now) to create a huge distributed supercomputer. BOINC is currently running on computers in over 200 countries around the world.



More. . . (http://www.foulger.info/davis/oswego/boinc/)

[frodo82801]

Someone installed this on my work laptop. I noticed that things were crawling and checked the task manager performance. It was pegged at 100%. I checked for processes and there was SETI. I tore the blasted thing out by the roots.

This does use more electricity. When you are running it on a laptop, it's definitely harder on things as the battery in the equation changes things.

Not on my computers.

[NovaStorm]

I will reserve my 580 watts for fancy 3d screen savers. yup :lol2
http://www.electricsheep.org/
Distributed computing at its best!