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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

What about prometheus@home?

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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