I've changed two of my clients over to Boinc and therefore my progress up the "old" Seti chart has slowed dramatically. I expect Elizian is probably gaining on me again.
I'm a bit frustrated with the Boinc thing. It seems that about half the time it reports that the server is either off line, or there is no work to be done. So my two fastest machines are frequently sitting idle.
Maybe I should look for another project to donate cycles to.
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everklear wrote:I've changed two of my clients over to Boinc and therefore my progress up the "old" Seti chart has slowed dramatically. I expect Elizian is probably gaining on me again.
I'm a bit frustrated with the Boinc thing. It seems that about half the time it reports that the server is either off line, or there is no work to be done. So my two fastest machines are frequently sitting idle.
Maybe I should look for another project to donate cycles to.
Or just use the old client in the meantime..?
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everklear wrote:I've changed two of my clients over to Boinc and therefore my progress up the "old" Seti chart has slowed dramatically. I expect Elizian is probably gaining on me again.
I'm a bit frustrated with the Boinc thing. It seems that about half the time it reports that the server is either off line, or there is no work to be done. So my two fastest machines are frequently sitting idle.
Maybe I should look for another project to donate cycles to.
Or just use the old client in the meantime..?
Well, I could...but it's kind of a PITA to be farting around with software that I just want to be quietly running in the background. Donating processing power, like. Also helping my local power company rake in those large quarterly profits.
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Cambridge University were doing one where you could donate cycles to help find a cure for cancer - searched their site but had no luck finding a client. Anyone have the link?
techster wrote:Cambridge University were doing one where you could donate cycles to help find a cure for cancer - searched their site but had no luck finding a client. Anyone have the link?
I am not sure that this is the project you're thinking of, but I donate my spare cycles to http://www.grid.org which researchs into cures for cancer, anthrax, smallpox and other diseases.
I think you may be referring to folding@home, which does protein folding. quite possible more real world implications than seti.
boinc has an interesting project though, it's going to try and measure the speed of gravity using distributed computing to compare data frrom every known pulsar in the sky, or something like that. We don't know if gravity travels at the speed of light, faster than that, or if it's instantaneous. If it's instantaneous, that would be a far superior way for advanced civilizations to communicate. If it's not, that might imply that gravity is a wave that could be shielded against..
zbandito wrote:I think you may be referring to folding@home, which does protein folding. quite possible more real world implications than seti.
boinc has an interesting project though, it's going to try and measure the speed of gravity using distributed computing to compare data frrom every known pulsar in the sky, or something like that. We don't know if gravity travels at the speed of light, faster than that, or if it's instantaneous. If it's instantaneous, that would be a far superior way for advanced civilizations to communicate. If it's not, that might imply that gravity is a wave that could be shielded against..
something like that. i'd like to know!
Wow, thats pretty cool... almost makes me take up physics!
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almost makes me take up physics!
