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  • From: Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Fun with your CPUs
  • Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:47:01 -0400

Another project in the same vein as seti@home is [0] folding@home. It
simulates protein folding and the results are used for actual research
purposes. There's no smgl group for it, but if someone makes one, I'll
join it.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

On Tue, 2005-23-08 at 10:44 -0700, Adam Clark wrote:
> Or, a complete waste of idle CPU time...
>
> Hey all,
>
> As you are probably aware, there are several projects online that allow
> your CPUs to participate in a large group project doing something
> useful, probably the most famous of these is Seti@Home.
>
> Another of these projects is called distributed.net[0], which may have
> been the first of it's type. It's been around for years, has completed
> several of the contests that it set out to finish, and is still going
> fairly strong.
>
> The goals of distributed.net are varied, depending on the contest it's
> running, but they've basically created one of the world's fastest
> computers by utilizing people's spare CPU cycles. When one participates
> in the projects, you usually have a chance to win a little money if one
> of your CPUs is the one that completes the task at hand, and if nothing
> else, you get lots of pretty stats to show you how you're doing in the
> grand scheme of things.
>
> There's also groups that you can belong to, to try and show that your
> group is the fastest of them all, or, at least, got a fair bit of CPU
> behind it.
>
> As a side-effect, this is another way that SMGL can get a little
> exposure, by showing that we can be one of the more powerful groups out
> there.
>
> So, I recently loaded up a bunch of machines that I have control over
> with the distributed.net client, and started the SMGL team. My personal
> crunching stats can be found at [1], and the SMGL team page is at [2].
>
> If you'd like to check it out and/or participate, please visit [0] and
> consider running the client on your systems. If you do start it up, be
> sure to join the SMGL Team[2] once the next d.net stats run is done.
> Unfortunately the client's binary-only, but they provide some
> information on their site as to why that's always been the case.
>
> Please feel free to reply to the list here if you've got any questions
> that [0] doesn't answer!
>
> -Adam Clark
> -Web Team Lead
>
> [0] - http://distributed.net
> [1] -
> http://stats.distributed.net/participant/psummary.php?project_id=8&id=451789
> [2] -
> http://stats.distributed.net/team/tmsummary.php?project_id=8&team=31299
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