Cancer research project

[wpshooter]

I am looking for a distributed research project (preferrable cancer related) which can be ran on a Ubuntu O/S.

Also, I am brand-new to Linux, so I need something that will run on Linux without me having to try to reinvent the wheel, so to speak.

If you know of such a project can you give me the name, where I could find it and some fairly detailed instructions on how to get it up and running on Ubuntu ? I know ZERO about any command line parameters that would be required to either obtain or install an application.

Thanks.

 

[silverpig]

Most (all?) of the DC apps I know of have both a linux and a windows version. I do seventeenorbust and have done seti, BOINC, DPAD, and a few others on my linux machines in the past. It's so stupidly simple. Just make a new directory in your home directory for the file, download the client, move it to your new directory, do whatever minor setup you have to do, and then run it.

For example on my system I downloaded seventeen or bust saved the file in my downloads directory. Then I did a

mkdir /home/silverpig/sb
cd /home/silverpig/downloads
mv <whatever the file is called>.zip ../sb
cd ../sb
unzip <whatever the file is called>.zip

Now to edit the config file as per the site's instructions
nano sclient.conf
input my username and team name, closed nano
If I want to make it easier to run, I can copy sclient.conf to /etc/sclient.conf, but I have to be root to do it
sudo cp sclient.conf /etc/sclient.conf
<input password>

then it's a simple matter of starting it

./sb

So when I start my computer, I open a terminal and then starting it is just

cd sb
./sb

and it runs