Anyone still doing anything like this?

I've just started looking at it again as I've got a pretty powerful rig sat here that doesn't do a fat lot most of the time and is on 24x7 so I figure I might as well set it onto background tasks doing something useful.

I'd be interested to hear from anyone still into this about what they're doing, what projects are still active/getting big attention. The main ones I'm aware of at the moment are the UD Cancer Research (although I don't know if that's still going) and Folding@Home, SETI@Home, MilkyWay@Home (sounds interesting and I might look more into that) and Einstein@Home which is also quite interesting.

If anyone knows of anything a bit out of the ordinary/new or undersubscribed to they think is interesting or worth mentioning that would be good to look at post it up.

Also any 'service' type distributed computing like browsershots.org and things like that that are providing useful tools to people.

I had 17years of CPU time on UD when they shut down.... couldn't be bothered to start up with another...

but would give another one a go if it sounded interesting/worthwhile :-)

I just read through a list of projects on wikipedia, seems the ones I've mentioned already are the biggest, I'm tempted to setup a Tek Group again and we can plough into MilkyWay/Einstein as they seem like the biggest/most current projects to get into.

if you do setup a tek group, I'll stick it on my main rig.

Why not make a tek bit coin group? Earn a bit of dosh from your monster rigs.

I did that for ages and have now pulled out, Bitcoins are not worth the time now unless you have dedicated hardware, regular graphics cards are being phased out.

I'll setup a Tek group tomorrow for Milkyway@Home.

I've signed up and got it running now, will be interesting to see how stable my pc is these days been along time since I had 24/7 100% cpu usage.

Just realised I should really set this up on my work computer. It's left on most of the time. Don't fancy something astronomy related though, much prefer something biological I think. Had a *very* quick look at milkyway, but didn't quite get how a 3d model of the galaxy would benefit mankind as much as other projects?

So does anyone know of any successes f@h or whatever have had? Or is it all just wasted cycles?

SETI is the only one I think that has had any degree of success so far.

Quote from: zpyder on January 13, 2013, 23:26:08 PM
Just realised I should really set this up on my work computer. It's left on most of the time. Don't fancy something astronomy related though, much prefer something biological I think. Had a *very* quick look at milkyway, but didn't quite get how a 3d model of the galaxy would benefit mankind as much as other projects?

Just a quick grab:

QuoteBy mid-2009 the project's main astrophysical interest is in the Sagittarius stream,[3] a stellar stream emanating from the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy which partially penetrates the space occupied by the Milky Way and is believed to be in an unstable orbit around it, probably after a close encounter or collision with the Milky Way[4] which subjected it to strong galactic tide forces. Mapping such interstellar streams and their dynamics with high accuracy is expected to provide crucial clues for understanding the structure, formation, evolution, and gravitational potential distribution of the Milky Way and similar galaxies. It could also provide insight on the dark matter issue. As the project evolves it might turn its attention to other starstreams.

I guess its not an 'immediate issue' but still is helping towards our understanding of the universe and isn't over subscribed like Folding@Home, I'd be more interested in something like that or Rosetta@Home if the end goal wasn't going to be something pharmaceutical. I guess we could always set up on both and people can choose what to put work into.

There's a big list of all the available projects, take a look and see if you think any others are of note:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects

Looking at the wiki list, the two I'm most inclined to contribute to are either Einstein or Rosetta. I know Rosetta is like Folding, but something about it is more appealing, not least the fact that it's smaller.

Enigma@Home looks interesting.... doesn't really do anything worthwhile.. but I'm not sure if that's still running... last update to the website was in May saying the server was down...

if you guys pick something to run and make a team, I'll stick 4 computers running it 24/7

my pc has been running the milky-way one for almost 24hours now and has been 100% stable.

CPU temps are probably a touch on the high side, but its been along time since I paid attention to stuff like that so don't know what is normal these days and I'm running a pretty old, heavily overclocked cpu on air.

Think the mobo temp sensor has failed much?

56'C cpu tamp at 100% load isn't bad at all, anything sup 60 is good, sub 70 is fine and you don't need to worry till they get over 80tbh
(at 100% load anyway)

I've made team Tekforums.net. The global team should be team ID 2439.

It looks like whatever people are working on will be added to the stats regardless, I don't think I have to activate any particular projects. Only way to find out for sure is for people to join though