Distributed Computing - Making use of your spare computing power

Hi All,

If your not familar with 'Distributed Computing' please take a few minutes & read the artcle (written permission to post, was obtained from the publisher) you can help cure cancer & other dreaded diseases. For more information & a list of Active distributed computing projects. SEE: www.distributedcomputing.info

Thank You
Rico

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great to see a post on Distributed Computing.

heres an idea: we could start a team for this forum

 

My contribution to the science is the participation in this project http://folding.stanford.edu/
It helps to virtually construct the proteins in 3 dimensions. The so-called "folding". The way they fold is important because it is believed that this is releated to many diseases like Altsheimer, Parkinson, Cancer etc.

 

A VERY worthwhile project. Thanks for calling it to my attention, Rico-san.

 

I just did a report on the uses of grid computing for businesses.

SETI@home [search for extraterrestrial life] is also another interesting project to look at. Not as useful as curing cancer, but some may find it interesting.

And there's another distributed project to keep an eye on, I do forget the name, but it had to deal with the new particle smasher being built in... Europe I believe. My memory is failing me these days...

 

Hi All,

For a list of "ALL" active/ongoing distributed projects! SEE

http://distributedcomputing.info/projects.html


Thanks & Take Care
Rico

 

List of distributed computing projects
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

 

GOT FAH?

http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html




What's In Your Tray?

 

i run it as a service

 

Hi Fuser,

What do you mean, run it as a service? How do you do that? And Why?

Take Care
Rico

 

i download the console version and when i run the configuration, it lets me install it as a windows service.

i use the console version because the GUI version caused me problems when playing GunBound. also it performs slightly better or so i read

 

I used to do the distributed.net stuff, before seti@home etc were popular.
As my main machine is a laptop, its not really practical for me to consider running such a thing anymore.

 

Hi All,

Dozleng has already formed a team & seeks folders! They've already folded ! work unit. See:

http://www.dozleng.com/updates/index.php?showtopic=12055.

Now excuse me while I fold this!

Rico

 

thats great news

 

An example

 

Hi Guys,

Check this out way cool! See:

http://www.hel-razor.com/FoldingForOurFuture.html

Take Care
Rico

 

Hi All,

Check out the Folding community for all the information in the world regarding FAH:

http://forum.folding-community.org/forums.html

Note: From there you can choose Forum > Folding Community > General FAH

Post #2, Mr. Fuser's suggestion for a team, seems like its off to a very slow start. I've posted at the above for information & tips regarding getting a team up & running. Perhaps we should think of a team name, which should meet with the approval of the Red-lettered folks. How about:

Paul's Protein Folders

Take Care
rico

 

Hi!

When we have a name, we can fill this form in & fold:

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/createteam.pl

TakeCare
Rico

 

Hi!

Two interesting articles I ran across.

With ATI's X1900 GPU, FAH can run 40 times faster! How about that a video card!

Play Station 3 uses a chip, thats going into the worlds fastest supercomputer. PS3 can fold, with lightning speed!

SEE:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/fun.games/09/18/playstation.folding/index.html

http://www.apcstart.com/node/4018

Take Care
Rico

 

Yes, today´s GPUs are powerful vector/FP streaming processors.
With the release of G80, NVIDIA(big promoter of GPGPU ) will have its own Folding client thanks to CUDA and G80´s 128 scalar ALUs
Before 2010 we´ll have supercomputing(TeraFLOP) performance iin middle to high-end desktops

 

Hi Lucas,

I wondered about nVidia not having a super-duper video card, that could fold so quickly. Maye on my next PC, I'll be able to fold quick like a bunny!

Lucas do you FAH? If so how many WU's?

Take Care
Rico

 

Geforce 7x00(G7x) have a poor branching performance, don´t have a thread scheduler/dispatcher and don´t like complex math. G70 design is suited to today games(enough fillrate, high texelrate, lots of simple shaders)
G80 is clearly towards GPGPU, stream computing and future games(lots of complex shaders and math, branching, HDR, etc)

Not at this moment. Upgrading hardware and testing software occupies my time and CPU cycles
I was on Tech Report team

 

Greetings all,
Best wishes to you and good luck setting up your new Folding@Home team. This great forum should help you recruit many dedicated folders for your team.
Thanks for the heads up, Rico.

Catch us if you can!

 

Hello Alancabler,

Welcome to Wilders! Thank you for the encouragement!

Take Care
Rico

 

Rico
Your "Forming a Team" thread got fixed, and Mike Norwood just made a great reply...http://forum.folding-community.org/fpost154678.html#154678