FoBoT
04-15-2002, 04:02 PM
:smoking:
hey, i just posted the following over at www.linuxnewbie.org, where i am a moderator, hoping to get some new blood for us here at free-dc :thumbs:
please be sure to be helpful to any DC newbies that may show up :)
thank you
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You may or may not have heard of Distributed Computing (http://www.free-dc.org).
SETI (http://bane.free-dc.org/seti/) is probably the most widely advertised/re-cognized Distributed Computing (http://www.free-dc.org) project around, but there are many more out there.
The basic concept of Distributed Computing (http://www.free-dc.org) is to take a large computational job/problem and break it into many, many smaller parts so that instead of using a huge super computer to run the whole job over a period of weeks/months/years at a HUGE cost, the problem is split into tiny little units that can then be dispersed to home PC's across the world and the same computational work can be accomplished using the "wasted/unused" cpu cycles that exist in nearly all Home PC's.
Since many home PC's are underutilized, millions/billions/trillions of these unused cpu cycles go unused everyday. Distributed Computing (http://www.free-dc.org) attempts to harness that power to solve many different types of problems.
Some of the biggest/most popular Distributed Computing (http://www.free-dc.org) projects include:
Distributed Folding (http://bane.free-dc.org/distfold/)
This is a medical project dealing with "folding" proteins.
Distributed.net (http://bane.free-dc.org/dnet/)
This is a pair of projects, RC5 is an encryption project, "cracking the code" and OGR is a maths project, calculating "Golomb Rulers".
ECCP (http://bane.free-dc.org/eccp/)
A maths project, to do F<sub>p</sub>
elliptic curve discrete log computation.
Folding at Home (http://bane.free-dc.org/folding/)
Another medical project involving protein folding, run by people at Stanford Univ.
Genome at Home (http://bane.free-dc.org/genome/)
Another medical project related to the human genome, it studies real genomes and proteins.
Childhood Diseases Project (http://bane.free-dc.org/childhood/)
A medical aimed at finding a cure for children suffering from Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC).
THINK (http://bane.free-dc.org/ud/)
A medical project aimed at finding cures for cancer. They also ran some Anthrax problems for a while.
I want to encourage anyone that has never tried any of these projects, and those that tried them some time ago and perhaps stopped for various reasons, to check out these worthy projects and see if you want to be involved in utilitizing your home PC in an interesting and possible beneficial way.
Thanks for your time and if you have questions, please use the links in this post, there are many Distributed Computing experts over at www.free-dc.org (http://www.free-dc.org) that would be happy to help out a "DC" newbie! :)
hey, i just posted the following over at www.linuxnewbie.org, where i am a moderator, hoping to get some new blood for us here at free-dc :thumbs:
please be sure to be helpful to any DC newbies that may show up :)
thank you
--------------------------------------
You may or may not have heard of Distributed Computing (http://www.free-dc.org).
SETI (http://bane.free-dc.org/seti/) is probably the most widely advertised/re-cognized Distributed Computing (http://www.free-dc.org) project around, but there are many more out there.
The basic concept of Distributed Computing (http://www.free-dc.org) is to take a large computational job/problem and break it into many, many smaller parts so that instead of using a huge super computer to run the whole job over a period of weeks/months/years at a HUGE cost, the problem is split into tiny little units that can then be dispersed to home PC's across the world and the same computational work can be accomplished using the "wasted/unused" cpu cycles that exist in nearly all Home PC's.
Since many home PC's are underutilized, millions/billions/trillions of these unused cpu cycles go unused everyday. Distributed Computing (http://www.free-dc.org) attempts to harness that power to solve many different types of problems.
Some of the biggest/most popular Distributed Computing (http://www.free-dc.org) projects include:
Distributed Folding (http://bane.free-dc.org/distfold/)
This is a medical project dealing with "folding" proteins.
Distributed.net (http://bane.free-dc.org/dnet/)
This is a pair of projects, RC5 is an encryption project, "cracking the code" and OGR is a maths project, calculating "Golomb Rulers".
ECCP (http://bane.free-dc.org/eccp/)
A maths project, to do F<sub>p</sub>
elliptic curve discrete log computation.
Folding at Home (http://bane.free-dc.org/folding/)
Another medical project involving protein folding, run by people at Stanford Univ.
Genome at Home (http://bane.free-dc.org/genome/)
Another medical project related to the human genome, it studies real genomes and proteins.
Childhood Diseases Project (http://bane.free-dc.org/childhood/)
A medical aimed at finding a cure for children suffering from Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC).
THINK (http://bane.free-dc.org/ud/)
A medical project aimed at finding cures for cancer. They also ran some Anthrax problems for a while.
I want to encourage anyone that has never tried any of these projects, and those that tried them some time ago and perhaps stopped for various reasons, to check out these worthy projects and see if you want to be involved in utilitizing your home PC in an interesting and possible beneficial way.
Thanks for your time and if you have questions, please use the links in this post, there are many Distributed Computing experts over at www.free-dc.org (http://www.free-dc.org) that would be happy to help out a "DC" newbie! :)