Grid computing has the potential to boost science and technology in many ways, like curing diseases, solve some mysteries of the universe and developing better, faster and cheaper materials. The great thing is, YOU can be part of it, the more people join in, the faster progress is made and the faster you and whole mankind can pick the fruits of effort.... It doesn't take much blood, sweat and tears, just downloading some client wich will use your spare CPU cycles! Some grid projects joined by sciforums members: SCIFORUMS TEAM Folding@Home: http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15074 SCIFORUMS TEAM Seti@Home: http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5812&highlight=Seti Other Grid Projects that might be of your interest: http://www.evolutionary-research.org/ http://www.distributed.net/index.php.en http://www.fightaidsathome.org/ http://www.mersenne.org/ http://uk.moneybee.net/ http://genomeathome.stanford.edu/ http://www.daliworld.net/index.html http://c2h.sourceforge.net/ http://bayanihancomputing.net/ http://stephenbrooks.freeservers.com/muon1v1.htm http://www.mclab.net/server-less_vod.htm http://www.lifemapper.org/ http://www.folderol.org/ http://xpulsar.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/ Precicely for the broad scope and global impact that grid computing has on many fields of science i hope you don't mind I cross-posted on several boards to reach a maximum audience.
I've tried Seti @ Home. While it was nice for a while, the information they give you for analysis has probably been gone over several times. Plus -- it can burn out your CPU, leaving you with a pile of electronic junk. I can't imagine these would be any different.
Burn out your CPU???!?! Well, I'll see in the next month probably. I have my main computer using SETI@home client running 24/7 on a "low CPU priority" and I got a Pentium1, 120mhz, computer dedicated to just SETI@home. The P1 computer has been running 24/7 for about a month now, without a restart, and there's no problem about burning out the CPU. That computer only has a heatsink and a crappy heat transfer compound to protect it...still runs fine while running the CPU at 100% for a month. Has there been accounts of people burning out their CPU because of these programs?....or was it caused by bad cooling on their part?
Never happened to me in the month that I used it. But I have heard stories and that was enough to keep me away for good. Check google and I'm sure you'll find pages complaining about that. Of course if you want to dedicate some junker then that's fine. I'd personally hate to kill perfectly good equipment. But they do make nice screensavers:m:
Burn out CPU could have been some extreme overclocker without watercooling, who let his run computer continuesly to get a high ranking? Count me in on that numbers scam...
Eh? CPUs are made for continual use, and as it happens, starting up and shutting down systems causes more stress and failures than leaving a machine running. SETI or any of these apps are hardly going to max our your processor or disk either. My home PCs run continuously, running apps such as a bulletin board, and have pretty much been on constantly for two years. I've yet to have a processor burn out, and never seen it in a 15 year career in IT either. So can we cut the scaremongering?
the only time i seen cpu burnout is when overclocking or not putting the heatsink on Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
*cough* http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5812 http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15074 *cough*
