My mom runs this distributed climate change project and it seems to run you through a simulation of 150-200 years before it actually seems to upload your results. My mom runs an AMD 64 3200+ 24/7 and 100% CPU time is dedicated to this thing and it still takes several months to simulate a trial.
Just within the past 24 hours, someone was not careful and now the computer is full of spyware. I have never had any luck lately getting rid of spyware and my usual solution is to just reinstall Windows. The problem is that my mom is on her 120th year and if I reinstall Windows, bye bye goes the progress. She makes a big deal about it because this has happened before.
Does anyone else run this project? It runs your computer through a simulation of 160 years (I think) worth of climate patterns bassed on preset perameters. It looks as if you have to run through a whole trial before it uplaods any results. Given that a single trial takes 4+ months on a beefy system should make anyone realize just how stupid the setup of this experiment really is (if it works like I suspect). You are supposed to give people SMALL blocks to calculate. If you give them a years work, then probably only 10% of the people will actually run the whole trial as opposed to small work loads where you can get a much higher perticipation result.
Someone please tell me that if I have to erase her progress, three months and $30 in electricity isn't going to waste.
Just within the past 24 hours, someone was not careful and now the computer is full of spyware. I have never had any luck lately getting rid of spyware and my usual solution is to just reinstall Windows. The problem is that my mom is on her 120th year and if I reinstall Windows, bye bye goes the progress. She makes a big deal about it because this has happened before.
Does anyone else run this project? It runs your computer through a simulation of 160 years (I think) worth of climate patterns bassed on preset perameters. It looks as if you have to run through a whole trial before it uplaods any results. Given that a single trial takes 4+ months on a beefy system should make anyone realize just how stupid the setup of this experiment really is (if it works like I suspect). You are supposed to give people SMALL blocks to calculate. If you give them a years work, then probably only 10% of the people will actually run the whole trial as opposed to small work loads where you can get a much higher perticipation result.
Someone please tell me that if I have to erase her progress, three months and $30 in electricity isn't going to waste.
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