grid.org is it down?

[OutHouse]

i havent check my machines in a while but i saw that they could not download their data. i tried to connect to to grid.org and page is not there. did the project get dumped?

 

[Ken g6]

'Fraid so, for good. 🙁

 

[TallBill]

So the real question is.. what project will you put on those machines? 😛

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: TallBill
So the real question is.. what project will you put on those machines? 😛

which one would you like?

 

[TallBill]

Seventeenorbust or chess960@home. 😛 Chess960 doesn't run 24/7 but we're about to slip out of the top 10 for teams.

 

[OutHouse]

what do those do? i was exptecting you to say SETI.

 

[TallBill]

Seventeen or Bust is a distributed computing project to prove the Sierpinski Conjecture. When the project started, there were 17 candidate Sierpinski numbers left to challenge the conjecture; the project sets out to find a number n for each of these k values so that k.2n+1 is prime. If primes are found for all seventeen candidates, the theorem will be proven; if the conjecture is actually wrong, the search will go on forever, hence the name 'Seventeen or Bust'.

So far the project has found 10 out of the 17 primes. It has a standalone app that runs on 1-8 cores with ease. We have the #4 team in the world and with a decent boost in crunching could potentially take #3.

Chess960@home uses Boinc and literally plays chess against humans or other computers in different tournaments or settings. You get small 5-6 minute WU's that are due within a few hours. It doesn't run 24/7. Our team is 8th, with several teams hot on our trail. I personally just run chess960 in addition to whatever else I'm doing since it doesn't always have WU's. When some become available, Boinc snatches them up and crunches them.

Anyways, it might not cure cancer or whatever, but both projects have real world results.

 

[Rattledagger]

Originally posted by: Citrix
which one would you like?

Seeing you've run UD before, the most "similar" project is World Community Grid.
Some other biology/medical-projects are:
Rosetta@home
SIMAP (normally only available work start of month, always run atleast one other project)
Malaria@home
Proteins@home
Predictor@home
Folding@home

Or, if you'll like to run something else, there's lot to choose from, a couple examples are:
SETI@home
LHC@home (infrequent work, always run atleast one other project)
climateprediction.net
Einstein@home


All the projects, except Folding@home, uses BOINC, making it very easy to run one or many projects of your choise. BOINC has now, if counts all alpha/beta-projects, over 40 different projects to choose from, so chances are there'll something for your liking...

To download BOINC, go here
For more info about projects, a good starting-point is the BOINC WIKI