[Maflynn]

I'm a current seti user but with my new G5 I'm thinking of doing a new distributed computing project.

Any recomendations?

Some of the links on the team macNN don't seem to work, so I'm posting herre.

Mike

[OneMacGuy]

Originally posted by Maflynn:
I'm a current seti user but with my new G5 I'm thinking of doing a new distributed computing project.

Any recomendations?

Some of the links on the team macNN don't seem to work, so I'm posting herre.

Mike

The best one to get the most bang for your buck with the G5 is the folding@home project. It is also where most of our team is working right now.

The URl to get more info info is at:
http://folding.stanford.edu

[The Placid Casual]

I am running my Dual 1.8 in Folding@home and it seems to punch well above it's expected weight...

Satisfaction wise, i think that would be the best bet.

[Maflynn]

Ok, I have two cli versions of folding running useing the -local and different machine ids.

I''ve tried to find info on the other flags and configurations mean. I'd like to optimize this as much as possible, giving it high priorty when I'm not using my mac. Any suggestions.

Mike

[The Placid Casual]

Originally posted by Maflynn:
Ok, I have two cli versions of folding running useing the -local and different machine ids.

I''ve tried to find info on the other flags and configurations mean. I'd like to optimize this as much as possible, giving it high priorty when I'm not using my mac. Any suggestions.

Mike

I'd be tempted to use 'Increase' for dual machines... much, much easier that running thhe CLis independently.

Should be on Macupdate.com

[reader50]

Originally posted by Maflynn:
Ok, I have two cli versions of folding running useing the -local and different machine ids.

I''ve tried to find info on the other flags and configurations mean. I'd like to optimize this as much as possible, giving it high priorty when I'm not using my mac. Any suggestions.

Mike

http://team.macnn.com/drafts/CLI_User_Guide.html

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by OneMacGuy:
The best one to get the most bang for your buck with the G5 is the folding@home project. It is also where most of our team is working right now.

The URl to get more info info is at:
http://folding.stanford.edu

Ah-hah. I put folding@home on every machine that I can get my hands on *twitch*... haha.

[billybob128]

hey placid casual i looked on www.macupdate.com for that increase programme but could not find it could u possibly give a link to it?
thanks

[Lateralus]

Nooo.... Join RC5-72!!!

[The Placid Casual]

Originally posted by billybob128:
hey placid casual i looked on www.macupdate.com for that increase programme but could not find it could u possibly give a link to it?
thanks

http://teammacosx.homeunix.com/software.html

With thanks to our friends over at Team Mac OS X

[Maflynn]

Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
Nooo.... Join RC5-72!!!

What's RC5-72, can you provide more info

[billybob128]

thanks but after a test i dont think i will use it till i can spend more time with it

[Lateralus]

Originally posted by Maflynn:
What's RC5-72, can you provide more info

To put it simply;

It is a collective effort to crack the 72bit encryption. Basically, you run the client and your computer bombards the encryption with as many different combinations of numbers (keys) as it can. Some day, a computer will throw the correct key at the encryption and crack it.

The implementation is much like every other distributed computing project in that it is a collective effort amassing the power of the computers of however many people want to participate in the project to acheive the goal. Except in this case, the goal isn't to find aliens or fold proteins, it is to crack encryptions.

One nice thing about RC5-72 is that it has heavy AltiVec optimizations. The G4 processes nearly 7x the number of keys per second than the Pentium 4, and nearly 4x more than the Athlon XP. So, modern Macs have a decisive advantage in the project over PCs.

If you'd like to read into it further, head on over to the homepage of the project or click on the link to the Team MacNN page in my signature.

[mikkyo]

D2OL is the only popular active project with TeamMacNN in the Top Ten, so if you want to be a member of a top ten team, you should run D2OL.
In fact, your machines running D2OL could actually help keep Team MacNN in the Top Ten as we are about to slide.