One project I've seen online that I think is pretty cool is BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing). BOINC is a distributed computing system that allows any number of computers around the world to be used for scientific projects that require data analysis and number crunching. People who are willing to participate can set up the BOINC software on their computer(s) and join various BOINC-enabled projects and let their computers crunch data for the various projects they decide to join.

This is BOINC's home page:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu

Current scientific projects using BOINC include health (analyzing data to help find a cure for HIV and other diseases), SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - analyzes radio signals), mapping the Milky Way galaxy, and more.

I've used BOINC on and off over the years for various projects. I'm not sure how much my contributions help the various projects, but it's at least fun to track how many work units I've processed. Before BOINC was created, I joined SETI@Home in 1999, when SETI@Home was its own stand-alone distributed computing project.

I think it was pretty interesting to see SETI@Home evolve into BOINC to allow other scientific projects to leverage distributed computing. I also think some of the other projects using BOINC sound fairly good, such as the health-oriented projects to seek a cure for diseases and such.

Nightfox

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Re: Distributed computing projects
By: Nightfox to All on Sat Feb 15 2014 10:50 pm

This is BOINC's home page:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu

I have been a membersince 2001. I was Member of the month one month They sent me a questionaire and put me up on the front page. It was quite cool to see
my name and photo there.

I am a member of the Australian SETI Searchers team also and have been since about 2004.

Currently, I have 13,560,000 work credits.

Jeff in Brisbane, Australia.


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This is BOINC's home page:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu

I have been a membersince 2001. I was Member of the month one month They sent me a questionaire and put me up on the front page. It was quite cool
to see my name and photo there.

I am a member of the Australian SETI Searchers team also and have been
since about 2004.

Currently, I have 13,560,000 work credits.

That's cool. I haven't run it constantly over the years because after a while I start to worry about it wearing out my PC hardware faster. I'm still not sure how damaging it is to the CPU (and GPU) or any of their cores to have a 90% or more load all the time.. Maybe I'm being too paranoid though. But there's also the heat - There are days in the summer that can get fairly hot, and running a computer at such a load all the time only adds to the heat
inside my apartment.

Nightfox

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Re: Distributed computing projects
By: Nightfox to All on Sat Feb 15 2014 10:50 pm

I've used BOINC on and off over the years for various projects. I'm not sure how much my contributions help the various projects, but it's at least fun to track how many work units I've processed. Before BOINC was created, I joined SETI@Home in 1999, when SETI@Home was its own stand-alone distributed computing project.

I have also been a member of Seti@home for years. What I get a kick out of
is all the computers I have used over the years. I was computing Seti Packets before BOINC. Do you have a team or did you join a team? My username on Seti is CoCo_Kid there has also been a few people who have got in trouble for installing
seti or boinc on company computers. What is your username? I'll have to check your
stats out. I think there is also one called grid. Also the Seti project is listed
in the Book of World Records as the largest computing project or listed as one of
the most powerful computer projects ever.



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Re: Distributed computing projects
By: Timesoarer to Nightfox on Sun Mar 02 2014 02:53:13

I have also been a member of Seti@home for years. What I get a kick
out of is all the computers I have used over the years. I was computing Seti Packets before BOINC. Do you have a team or did you join a team?

I was also doing SETI packets before BOINC. Soon after I joined, I found that the college I was attending had a SETI@Home team, so I joined that team for a little while..

My username on Seti is CoCo_Kid there has also been a few people who
have got in trouble for installing seti or boinc on company computers. What is your username? I'll have to check your stats out. I think there

My username there is CalicoSkies. I don't have very much credit compared to other SETI@Home users, mainly because I have not run SETI@Home consistently over the years, and I've only run it on 1 or 2 computers at a time (whereas I've seen some people who are running it on 10 computers are more).

is also one called grid. Also the Seti project is listed in the Book of World Records as the largest computing project or listed as one of the most powerful computer projects ever.

I'm not surprised about that.
I also run some projects related to health and medicine - World Community Grid, rosetta@Home, and Docking@Home. Occasionally I run tasks from Milkyway@Home and LHC@Home.

Nightfox

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Re: Distributed computing projects
By: Timesoarer to Nightfox on Sun Mar 02 2014 02:53 am

Re: Distributed computing projects
By: Nightfox to All on Sat Feb 15 2014 10:50 pm

I've used BOINC on and off over the years for various projects. I'm not sure how much my contributions help the various projects, but it's at lea fun to track how many work units I've processed. Before BOINC was create I joined SETI@Home in 1999, when SETI@Home was its own stand-alone distributed computing project.

I have also been a member of Seti@home for years. What I get a kick is all the computers I have used over the years. I was computing Seti Packe before BOINC. Do you have a team or did you join a team? My username on Se is CoCo_Kid there has also been a few people who have got in trouble for ins seti or boinc on company computers. What is your username? I'll have to che stats out. I think there is also one called grid. Also the Seti project is in the Book of World Records as the largest computing project or listed as o the most powerful computer projects ever.

On Seti@Home, I am Cas98. Over the years, I have used about 10 different computers and usually always have at least 2 running 24/7. Right now, I have
3 going.

Jeff in Brisbane.


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Re: Distributed computing projects
By: Nightfox to All on Sat Feb 15 2014 10:50 pm

I think it was pretty interesting to see SETI@Home evolve into BOINC to allo other scientific projects to leverage distributed computing. I also think s of the other projects using BOINC sound fairly good, such as the health-oriented projects to seek a cure for diseases and such.

Nightfox

I was using Boinc for quite a bit. When I upgraded from Mageia 3 to 4, it stopped working because I'm missing a library I can't seem to find. I gave up but will try again later, probably when I upgrade again.
It was cool to see all the different projects you can now contribute to. I was signed up for a couple. I don't know that I contributed much of anything either.


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