How do I start?

[imported_LoKe]

My new system should be showing up soon, so I'd like to start helping out like the rest of you, the problem is...I don't where to start. I looked at the folding@home sticky, but that's just for ATi cards? I'll have an nVidia card, so I can't even look into that.

I'll also be running Linux, are there *nix equivalents to any of these programs? I could always run it under WINE if I had to.

Oh, and just so I'm clear, this is the kind of thing like Prime95 (I think?) where it looks for Mersenne prime numbers? Or like that application that you would run that claims to help cancer research?

Any information and suggestions would be appreciated.

Edit: I also looked at the topmost sticky, but I'm still not entirely sure what to do.

 

[Alex]

i also wanna know... i wanna help cancer reasearch. screw finding aliens.

 

[Bateluer]

Easiest thing to do is to go to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ and click Choose.

Create an account for whichever project you deem most fit, DL the client, attach the client to the project, then join your account to the TeAm.

BTW, Seti@Home is your daddy.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Easiest thing to do is to go to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ and click Choose.

Create an account for whichever project you deem most fit, DL the client, attach the client to the project, then join your account to the TeAm.

BTW, Seti@Home is your daddy.

I thought the sticky said Seti@Home was discontinued. Can I still participate in it?

 

[Freewolf]

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/viewResearch.do
http://folding.stanford.edu/

sti@ home is now Seti@homeBOINC
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Distributed computing projects all currently only take advantage of your processor. Folding@Home is only just today releasing the open beta for their GPU client. No one else has any sort of equivelent.

BOINC is a great and easy way to split your CPU work between several projects that you might like to support.

I myself do work on Folding@Home. It's currently researching causes of cancer, Huntington's Disease, Alzhiemers and Parkinsons among a few others. Specifically how protien folding (how your body makes protiens).

You can download your flavor of the Folding@Home client here. I'd recommend using the commandline client if you are running windows. There are some issues with different graphics card drivers and the GUI client which will cause them to crash sometimes between units.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Easiest thing to do is to go to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ and click Choose.

Create an account for whichever project you deem most fit, DL the client, attach the client to the project, then join your account to the TeAm.

BTW, Seti@Home is your daddy.

I thought the sticky said Seti@Home was discontinued. Can I still participate in it?

S@H Classic was discontinued. S@H is one of the largest DC projects around BOINC these days.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Thanks for the info, guys. I'll be back once my rig arrives (should be within the next couple days.)

 

[CupCak3]

Folding@Home has a great linux client that I have ran on fedora and gentoo. if you have any questions about it don't hesitate to ask!

even though you can't utilize your gpu, we would still love to have you on the folding@home team

for those that want to setup folding@home mde has a great guide here. we're team 198 :beer:



rosetta@home, tanpaku, and folding@home are all cancer research project which i participate in...

 

[lyssword]

question, do any @home projects utilize 64 bit computing yet? just curious

 

[Wolfie]

Don't do it!!! You will be stuck here for the next 7 years as I have. And you get to meet new, wonderfull computer geeklings that seem to know everything when it comes to computers.

Ok, so I have been around long enough to know that if you are going to do DC stuff, this is the place to be. And lets not forget about the beer tub chicks.

 

[Rattledagger]

Originally posted by: Freewolf
sti@ home is now Seti@homeBOINC
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Correction, the SETI@home web-site is http://setiathome.berkeley.edu the same it's actually been since 1999.
If you're trying to use wrong url, the BOINC-client will just detach you again.


As for BOINC-projects, a good start-point is Released BOINC-projects with short description of the various projects, and for some can be important, OS-support, memory-requirements, bandwith-usage and so on.

For the more adventurous, there's also a link to alpha/beta-projects at the bottom of this page...


Also please note, Predictor@home is currently down, while they're developing a new application...

 

[CupCak3]

Originally posted by: lyssword
question, do any @home projects utilize 64 bit computing yet? just curious

not that i know of

 

[Ken g6]

Originally posted by: CupCak3

Originally posted by: lyssword
question, do any @home projects utilize 64 bit computing yet? just curious

not that i know of

I didn't think so, either, but it looks like Prime95 trial factoring can use it. Not that that's very useful...