ixfd64 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Just curious, does anyone here participate in any distributed computing (DC) projects? For those unaware, a DC project is a project that harness the power of many ordinary PCs to solve problems that require many computational steps. DC projects often have the pwoer of supercomputers. Many people leave their PCs on all the time and not use them. This is a waste of CPU cycles. In that time, their PCs could be used to solve such problems. You can find out more about DC projects here: http://distributedcomputing.info I personally participate in GIMPS (mersenne.org; the Great Internet Search for Mersenne primes) as well as the distributed.net projects. This computer is currently testing whether 2^26245511-1 is prime. :P ARENAscape: Baratus [AS] max hit: 166 with Moon Battle Hammer ixfd64 [AS] max hit: 116 with (untitled spell #2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 I've never got around to doing any. Though I've heard about a few of them. A popular one at the moment is models for climate change in the future, was even in the news here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dusqi Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 I'm doing a climate change model. It seems rather badly planned though. It takes about 3 months of solid PC time for the average computer to finish a model, and apparently if you don't finish then the data isn't that useful to them. Not to mention that sometimes the program crashes and loses data, so you need to make backups manually. I'm persevering though (4.54% of the way through, after 207 hours processing time - at this rate I will be finished in early 2007), but I don't recommend it for the average computer user. For it is the greyness of dusk that reigns.The time when the living and the dead exist as one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy500fan Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 the m4 project just cracked another part of the enigma code, i think it was doing something similar to what you are talking about. using spare cpu power and such. would i be able to join one of these, but choose when i want my computer to process the info? i dont want anything else going on in the backround when playing games, even if it supposedly only uses the extra cpu power. during webbrowsing and pretty much anything else, my cpu power would be free game for it. EDIT: found this on one of the sites you listed, sounds like my sort of thing. The Internet Movie Project :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dusqi Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Yes Indy, you can just close the program, or probably just "suspend processing" within the program for a while. For it is the greyness of dusk that reigns.The time when the living and the dead exist as one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anesthesia Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 I do protein folding on my linux machine, team 32 for ocforums.com. Some people are changed by being a moderator. I wouldn't be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixfd64 Posted March 26, 2006 Author Share Posted March 26, 2006 I'm doing a climate change model. It seems rather badly planned though. It takes about 3 months of solid PC time for the average computer to finish a model, and apparently if you don't finish then the data isn't that useful to them. Not to mention that sometimes the program crashes and loses data, so you need to make backups manually. I'm persevering though (4.54% of the way through, after 207 hours processing time - at this rate I will be finished in early 2007), but I don't recommend it for the average computer user. I've heard there's a version that takes 9 months, lol. :o ARENAscape: Baratus [AS] max hit: 166 with Moon Battle Hammer ixfd64 [AS] max hit: 116 with (untitled spell #2) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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