GUI linux DC projects?

[LotharJade]

Im looking for distributed computing project for my Gentoo Linux box that have a Graphical User Interface, and said support. Preferably life sciences. Any suggestions?

 

[GLeeM]

Hello LotharJade Welcome to the DC forums!

I know that Folding@Home has a Linux client, but I don't know if it is GUI. There are third party GUI monitoring programs for Windows that can control the client, maybe there are for Linux too.

Mainly just wanted to welcome you and give a bump, someone that knows will be along shortly.

 

[LotharJade]

I know that many Linux people are command line happy, but I wish they offered these with some form of GUI support. Like the popular screen saver and what not.

 

[mrwizer]

I have often wondered about this. I think that the main reason that Linux does not have GUI DC clients, and many other programs for that matter, is that cmd line rules in Linux. In addition, many of the users for DC are Windows users. Perhaps the need was never there, or the effort to develop a GUI client was never justified (not enough users?).

When I was running the Linux cmd line for classic seti, I too sometimes wished that there was some form of GUI. All I could do was run in verbose mode to see the real time progress. There are not any native GUI clients for DC projects that I know of, although you may be able to find a third party application to do this(?). Hopefully some of the Linux gurus will have more to say?

 

[GLeeM]

Hmmm.....nobody yet.....Saturdays are slow. EDIT: OK, I take a long time to post

I found info on a 3rd party app here and more about it here. Looks like it is for KDE.

From what I have heard it might be better to install as a service, with this. You could follow your progress with this very good stats page. It updates every three hours.