Getting started at Pi Segment
Project Name: Pi Segment
Projcet's Home Website: http://pisegment.vicp.net/index.aspx
From the Pi Segment website:
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What is the purpose of this project?
The main purpose of Pi Segment is to propagandize distributed computing in China and to try to encourage making full use of computational resources on personal computers. China has started researches in distributed computing long before and has obtained some achievement, for example the China Grid. But so far, there isn't any formal distributed projects for the public to join in. Obviously, that's really a waste of computational resources. We hope that the public would get to know about and join in distributed computing, through the propaganda of this project.
What is Pi Segment?
Pi Segment is a distributed computing project held by a university student. It aims to propagandize distributed computing, encourage people to make full use of their computational power and challenge the world record of calculating Pi. There are many popular distributed computing projects in other countries, but there's none in China. We hope that Pi Segment can change this situation. For more information, please visit the Introduction page of the project.
To download the latest client please visit: http://pisegment.vicp.net/project/projectpart.aspx
The client is very simple to work with, much like the Seventeen or Bust program. The client has built-in support for multiple CPU detection so you don't have to install X amount of copies to have one for every CPU. Registration is done through the client and then you can goto the main website and login then join a team.
If anyone needs any further help (it's pretty much just install->register->run) then please feel free to ask!
Happy Crunching!
Problems installing client and a suggestion to avoid same problem
I don't know if there's something quirky about my setup, but when I attempted to install PiSegment, I knew I'd crunched it previously, but I didn't know the password. I decided to guess, which was a really, REALLY bad idea.
Word of advice: If you don't get the username and password right on the first try, it's probably best to wipe the installation and start over. The other settings seem to be okay, but the username and password settings should be messed with as little as possible. Not a big deal if you're aware of the problem, but if you're not it can be VERY frustrating.