Anybody else into Distributed Computing?

Just wondering if anyone else is running distributed computing programs here like seti, rc5-64, folding @ home, etc, etc.

There are alot of "goodwill" projects were the computer cycles go toward helping to develop programs and models that hopefully in the future will help ad in making medications. There are also the mathmatical type that are usually in search of primes or using brute force to solve problems. Then there are the physics types that are searching for pulsars or modeling crystal formations (chemistry)

Anyway, if you got computers that are just idling, you may want to look into a project. The stats get pretty addictting too.

(I hope this is appropriate, if not delete away!)

 

I use it internal to my own network for rendering video and occasionally a 3d graphic or animation sequence.

I've set up a few clusters for one reason or another too. Clustering is a whole different ball game though.

I've never seen the usefulness in the mass programs until they discovered a new prime a few months back. I just don't think the SETI project is worth it. If the aliens want to talk to us, they'll come straight over, land on a field, pick up a cow and a cooky alabaman, and proceed to perform an anal probe. We don't need SETI, we need the National Enquirer. They've produced much more fun evidence of alien activity than SETI ever will.

 

I've never been a big SETI person.

My small team actually was the first to get one of the Serpinski primes (www.seventeenorbust.com)

I enjoy the math and scientific ones the most.

The prime that he found

 

many years back I use to be so addicted to Seti and getting more units done

 

I run the folding@home project on my machine.

It's always on unless I need more processing power for PS or something, but the PC runs all day with me away from it so I like to think it makes a small difference...

 

thats cool. Who you guess crunch for? just yourself?

 

I used to run distributed.net on my server and it crunched through a lot of results, but then I found out that it was causing the fan to rev constantly (because the CPU kept jumping to 99% used) so I disabled it. I've run F@H in the past, but it took so long to get one result that I gave up, tried Seti but didn't see much point and ran grub.org for a while but it caused problems with my router.

 

No, I'm in the powder2glass group... Not too sure how well we're doing anymore but it was quite good at one point...

 

I'm doing folding@home here at my computer. additionally at both computers of my dad and his gf, plus the computers from my dad's company... it's fun

 

By the way: I found a new program, called "Gomez peer". This actually doesn't share your CPU Power, but it shares your bandwith.

This is all coming from a company, which tests availability of websites from various companies, which can sign up there and let do the tests to their site.

You, as a gomez peer user, are acting as one of the international nodes. So this company can easily check availabilites of websites from all countries in the world, with different internet connections.

The good thing is: For all that, you get paid!
For each day, your client is running at least 2hours, you get 5cents.
For every minute your client is processing websitetests, you get 0,05cents.
Of course you may install it on several machines - as long as you use one and the same account for all. You may not have more than 1 account.
They're using PayPal and e-gold for payout ($5 minimum).

If anybody is interested, check it out at:
https://peer.gomez.com/aspx/Application.aspx?Referrer=Hijacker

My ref link is included there - would be nice to use it, if you want to join.

 

I actually considered writing a Seti like program that would be a search engine bot... then I decided there'd be too much room for abuse.

 

I think there was a SE Company, relying on such a network for their SE. They let their users spider the web

 

The powder2glass Google toolbar/compute team is doing quite well and here are some stats - currently #4 of all Google Computer's! ;-)

Thanx for helping out SEbasic and we welcome anyone else who wants to sign up!

 

Hey, no worries man...

Good to see we're doing so well

 

I'm in distributed computing ever since I knew about it.

I think each and every person should join it and try to help progress research.