lets get me back to distributed computing

[miketheidiot]

state your cases so i can decide what to do, i'm really out of the loop.


I did seti for a while, but stopped when i upgraded computers a few years ago.

some background information on how all this work woudl be nice too

 

[GLeeM]

Welcome back

There are some projects that can use cretain video cards now. What do you have?

And of coarse the CPU too.

What are your interests? Check out the sticky at the top.

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: GLeeM
Welcome back

There are some projects that can use cretain video cards now. What do you have?

And of coarse the CPU too.

What are your interests? Check out the sticky at the top.

I think one of the one doing medical research would be good. I looked at the post and it looked like folding was closed, but its there are still thread updates so i'm a bit confused. That or the malaria one would probably be my first choices.

looking at my laptop i have a geforce 9300m gs 512mb and a dual intel somethingoranother.

 

[Philippart]

Folding and malaria are very good choices. I personally recommend WorldCommunityGrid too!

The gpu you have is about the lowest spec that can run a gpu client, I don't recommend using it because it will miss deadlines easily and I wouldn't run a hot gpu client in a laptop, cpu is best for it

 

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: Philippart
Folding and malaria are very good choices. I personally recommend WorldCommunityGrid too!

The gpu you have is about the lowest spec that can run a gpu client, I don't recommend using it because it will miss deadlines easily and I wouldn't run a hot gpu client in a laptop, cpu is best for it

I agree, a 9300GS won't do very well on most, if not all projects.

Folding@Home, malariacontrol and WCG are great biomed projects! There are a few others too that are worth considering:

Poem@home and Rosetta@home are also protein folding projects and Docking@home is also a worthwhile biomed project.

welcome back to DC and the TeAm!:beer:

 

[Soggysocks]

And whats wrong with SETI? Not that other projects aren't worthy. I Myself run a few. Seti as my main but doing Milkyway@Home.....Did Rosetta, but requires a broadband connection (big work units) but I only have dial-up.

 

[bryanW1995]

seti and folding at home are the mega projects. Rosetta@home is a medical-based DC project. The list at the top of the DC forums was quite helpful for me.

You can use BOINC for most projects other than folding@home, that is nice b/c you can actually split your time between several different boinc projects.