Welcome pogueatl

[Bok]

Welcome to the team.. I've actually been to Marrietta a few years ago..

We are a friendly bunch of people who are interested in using our PC's to do distributed computing. It's fairly simple and there are lots of different projects out there you can participate in. Some of them are researching protein folding, others are looking for Prime Numbers. It usually just involves downloading a piece of software and starting it up.

Any questions let us know!

Bok

[pogueatl]

Actually I do have some questions. I seem to be up and running, but I am trying to understand all the terminology. What are credits and what do people get mad because they dont get them for? Do they do something? Where do those charts I see in everyones comments come from and what do they mean? If I want to work on a certain type of disease or cure, how does one go about doing that? What is crunching? See, I told you I had some questions. haha!!! Anyway, if you can explain some of these to me, it would be greatly appreciated!!!

thanks

Jami

[PY 222]

Welcome pogueatl.

Stats are basically points on the score board so you may compare how much of something you have done in a project as opposed to your other team mates or between teams.

We are the number 1 Distributed Computing team in the World. ( http://dc-vault.com/ )

Feel free to ask any questions you may have and we will definitely get on it.

Welcome again... a round of beer on the house :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

[Digital Parasite]

Welcome to the team pogueatl,

Make yourself at home. Just wondering how you found us?

[pogueatl]

from the Rosette@home website.

[Bok]

Actually I do have some questions. I seem to be up and running, but I am trying to understand all the terminology. What are credits and what do people get mad because they dont get them for? Do they do something? Where do those charts I see in everyones comments come from and what do they mean? If I want to work on a certain type of disease or cure, how does one go about doing that? What is crunching? See, I told you I had some questions. haha!!! Anyway, if you can explain some of these to me, it would be greatly appreciated!!!

thanks

Jami

Jami,

if you got to http://stats.free-dc.org/statstool.php (whilst also logged into the forums you will be able to setup your own stats. You need to be running 1 or more distributed computing projects so that you have an id. Then you can have one of the stats signatures. Once you do this I can help set it up for you if needed.

Out of interest, what spec of PC(s) are you running?

Bok

[PY 222]

from the Rosette@home website.

So, are you participating in the R@H project or some other project?

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask as we will be more than happy to help you out.

[pogueatl]

I guess I am, but I dont think I quite understood it correctly. I want to do medical research ones, like cancer and stuff and this one apparently is about some sort of strand or something but makes no sense to me. What manager do most people use to do this and are there particular ones for particular versions?

[PY 222]

okay, i have another question. i am looking for a medical research one to do. I went to the Active Distributed Computing Projects and saw that one on cancer research. i went to the website to look at it, but i noticed that i would have to download another manager. I guess my question is, are the different managers BOINC and GRID.ORG UD manager for different types of research, medical versus something else?

Yes they are different.

Basically BOINC is just a framework that DC projects use. BOINC stands for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing and Rosetta@Home is one of the projects that uses the Open Infrastructure that BOINC provides.

As for UD/Grid.org, they have their own client. So, if you have BOINC installed, then I would suggest that you start with BOINC first before venturing out to other projects.

Have you attached a project to your BOINC client?

[pogueatl]

I clicked on the link and when I get over there this is what is says: It doesn't appear that you are logged in... Please log in to the Free-DC forum There seems to be a problem with your cookie. Please clear your cookies and revalidate.

I cleared my cookies and tried again, same thing.

I dont know if this is what you want to know, but this is what i got when i clicked on sytsem information.

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer Dell Computer Corporation
System Model Dimension 2400
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~2791 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Computer Corporation A05, 12/2/2003
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
Total Physical Memory 256.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 77.05 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB

[PY 222]

I guess I am, but I dont think I quite understood it correctly. I want to do medical research ones, like cancer and stuff and this one apparently is about some sort of strand or something but makes no sense to me. What manager do most people use to do this and are there particular ones for particular versions?

For a list of BOINC based projects, head over to the official BOINC website at: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

For medical research projects using the BOINC infrastructure, you should be looking at Rosetta@Home, Predictor@Home and World Community Grid.

I personally do not use a Manager because I only run one project. I believe the Manager simplifies the process of attaching your client to a different BOINC project.

[pogueatl]

okay, I shut down my computer and then signed back into the forum and went to the link. It said I didnt have one and asked if i wanted to create so i did. Now what do i do?

[pogueatl]

how do i find my id #

[Bok]

how do i find my id #
If you go here (http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats.php?proj=rah&team=Free-DC&x=100)

and hover over your idm then look in the url bar, it shows it.

for you it is 82515

Bko

[pogueatl]

82515 is my ID #? is that for rosetta. I also signed up with two others, one is World Community Grid and the other one is predictor@home. World Community Grid is listed in the stats, but i dont have my id # for it and predictor is not even listed on the stats to check. what do i do now?

[PY 222]

pogueatl, give the stats some time to update and you should be showing up on the Team list.

Welcome. :rock:

[em99010pepe]

Welcome pogueatl!


What is mercenaries?

Answering your question here. Basically we are a group of people that crunch under the same nick, Free-DC Mercenaries, or in another term, we are a Free-DC sub team. More about us in here (http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=10908). Any question feel free to ask here or by PM.


Carlos

[Bok]

i found the one i need for world community grid, the only one that i need now is predictor@home and like i said above, it is not even listed on the stat page to put the stats, unless it is listed in a way I dont know.

I really want to thank you for your help!!!!

You have to have sent at least one result to them to appear on the stats. (and in Predictor's case, the result has to be validated which may take a day) Once you do. you'll show up here (http://stats.free-dc.org/new/teamstats.php?proj=pah&team=Free-DC)

Bok :cheers:

[pogueatl]

okay, so when i have some results sent to them, where do i find them on here: http://www.free-dc.org/statstool.php

are they called something else on there?

[Bok]

It was named a little badly on there :looney:. I've just renamed it so it is easier to see now.

Bok

[pogueatl]

wow, it wasnt there earlier, but now it appears!!! haha. whatever you did.....THANKS!!

[gopher_yarrowzoo]

Hello Pogueatl, don't worry BOK is the stats wizard around here, if something isn't right with the sigs, tell him, it gets fixed, something wrong with one of the actual stats pages (all of which can be found at http://stats.free-dc.org/ ), tell him he fixes, something not right, forum in wrong place, well he does that too, although sometimes he likes to delegate that to the other admin stuff, well they have to have something to do, ain't that right Tin butt I mean Target Butt I mean IB :P