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My new mini is certainly zipping through work units, particularly with those dual-cores. I mean sometimes two instances are working at 90-something percent CPU power when it's not being used for other things. Currently, I am running three distributed computing projects.-- SETI@home (my first, been crunching since 1999), Folding@home and Einstein@home.
Now, I'm looking to see if there are indeed other worthy projects to crunch for. I am looking through the BOINC list, since I already use the software, but I am having some difficulty choosing between projects that sound similar and some which I don't quite fully grasp.
So what do you run? Any suggestions?
(Last edited by Gamoe; Oct 2, 2006 at 12:50 AM.
(Reason:Added BOINC projects link))
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2001
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I started SETI back in 1999. Made it to the top 1,000. I helped field a top-10 SETI team in 2000-2001. Back when v2.0- utilized L2 cache to grat advantage. Lots of multi-Xeon machines made for quick work units. When the client changed to v3.0 we all lost interest. SETI is really a pointless endeavour if you think about it. But then, it was born in Berkeley, which is a pointless university. Haven't participated in years, though. I tried Folding@Home for a year or two, but the client was buggy and the people behind it weren't responsive - so I ditched that.
Heck, I think I've tried 'em all at least once. Currently I'm running D2OL on just one dual-core machine.
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Clinically Insane
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Folding@home I get, but who donates their CPU cycles to hunting aliens?
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Sounds like you did good work, Spliffdaddy. As far as the SETI endeavor goes... I think it has merit. Finding an honest-to-goodness radio signal from an alien civilization would be one of the greatest discoveries in human history. It would finally confirm that we are not alone.
However, I also devoted a lot of computer time and resources to SETI in the past, and now I feel I should give more time to other, also worthy computing endeavors, which is why I do Folding and Einstein. Currently I have SETI set to 10% time, while Einstein is at 90% in BOINC.
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Back in the days, I did a little bit if Seti...maybe only did 24 WU before I quit. Then, I did Ubero and I believe I was #1 of the entire MacNN project for a little while. But that was a while ago also and I have not participated in anything since, but since I have a dual 867 G4 lying idle nowadays, maybe I'l use it to something useful.
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I just can't see wasting electricity to run these projects. Sure, if you're using your comptuer for something else at the same time, but not when the computer isn't otherwise being used.
I actually try to minimize all of my computer's power consumption. Although my Mac Pro would be great at these tasks, it sucks power. On the other hand, my Sony Vaio notebook next to me pulls an amazing 9 watts when in use without the screen running. If I ran these programs in the background that number would go up dramatically.
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