Has Distributed Computing accomplished anything?

[Zeze]

I've always been curious.. whether it's SETI or cure for cancer or anything.

All that processing power throughout the world, have we found anything of any importance?

Posting in Off Topic for general answer.

 

[SillyOReilly]

They need to find a signal for SETI to be successful.

 

[zinfamous]

Yes.

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers

 

[Thump553]

I've done Folding@Home for years because it's directly aiding medical research and it's doing it under the direction of Stamford and not for some corporation's botom line. I'm not interested in getting the fastest results, etc. so long as my machines are configured properly and distributed computer action doesn't interfer with my regular uses. Folding@Home has done very well on all those points for me.

 

[zinfamous]

haha, "Stamford."

 

[busydude]

All that processing power throughout the world, have we found anything of any importance?

Yes.

 

[SKORPI0]

Still looking for the last digit of Pi. :biggrin:

 

[olds]

Don't know. But I crunch for team AnandTech any way. Doesn't hurt me in any way and may help them.

 

[busydude]

Don't know. But I crunch for team AnandTech any way. Doesn't hurt me in any way and may help them.

Hey olds, how are you?

 

[ultimatebob]

I wonder how many gigawatts of power have been wasted "mining" Bitcoins at this point...

 

[olds]

Hey olds, how are you?

Doing well. Just got my gallbladder out and I can eat again.

 

[Sluggo]

I heard some people lost their jobs because of it. :whiste:

 

[Howard]

I heard some people lost their jobs because of their lack of common sense and firm anchoring to reality. :whiste:

ftfy

 

[Bateluer]

By shifting and distributing the cost of computing power to us, some really good organizations save a ton of money that they use to further their research, higher more people, or otherwise further their goals without having to spend millions per year in computing resources.

 

[ultimatebob]

haha, "Stamford."

Heh... Common mistake. People think that it's somewhere in California, but it's a really a dumpy NYC suburb in Connecticut.

 

[Lithium381]

By shifting and distributing the cost of computing power to us, some really good organizations save a ton of money that they use to further their research, higher more people, or otherwise further their goals without having to spend millions per year in computing resources.

what are you a fscuking commie?

 

[zinfamous]

Heh... Common mistake. People think that it's somewhere in California, but it's a really a dumpy NYC suburb in Connecticut.

Isn't that where US The Office is set?

 

[zzuupp]

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/index.php

Einstein@home has discovered some pulsars

 

[Red Squirrel]

Not sure how well it works but I figure it does not really cost me much so I do it anyway.

 

[ultimatebob]

Isn't that where US The Office is set?

No, that's Scranton PA. A place that's even worse, trust me.

 

[natto fire]

I use it to put my computer in "space heater mode" in the winter. I then cut back in the summer. I mostly do RC5 and Primegrid, so I am not really expecting practical results, I just need the computer to pump out heat.

 

[OverVolt]

Probably not because they are simulations and will only give you results based on what variables you put in and we don't even know all the variables.

The protein folding one is a good example. We can brute force all the protein folding patterns then we learn something new about how proteins fold and all the old data is trash.

 

[unokitty]

Yes.

Distributed.net

DES Challenge III

Uno

 

[Howard]

Probably not because they are simulations and will only give you results based on what variables you put in and we don't even know all the variables.

The protein folding one is a good example. We can brute force all the protein folding patterns then we learn something new about how proteins fold and all the old data is trash.

That doesn't mean it's not worth doing.

 

[mmntech]

I do Folding@Home for Team Anandtech. I set my GPU to work crunching while I browse the web or work on projects. They've had a lot of success with the project. It's a small contribution that may help someone someday.