You may have noticed in the sig area of many forum members a reference to Team AnandTech. If you have found value in the articles and forums on the AnandTech Website you can show your appreciation by becoming a member of Team AnandTech. We would like to invite you to join us and use the idle CPU cycles of your computer to further various science experiments. But Team AnandTech is much more than sharing your spare CPU cycles for a "worthwhile" cause....it's about being a part of a "Family". The Team AnandTech "Family" is a very close knit group of people...from all backgrounds and societies....all working and playing together on various DC projects. We think the DC forum is one of the most friendly and helpful places on the AnandTech forums.....add that to the great team spirit...and you've got a winning combination! 
Below are the projects that Team AnandTech participates in along with some helpful links and tidbits about the individual project. All the Teams really need more Teammates....as many of the other teams in the world have grown lately, while we've slowed down....but
YOU can help change the trend.
Look over the various projects....most are very easy to set up and run....don't require 24 hour/day operation (but once addicted, you may just do that)...and have almost no effect on your everyday PC(s) operations. If you have a question, please jump over to the Distributed Computing Forum and ask a question....or just say hello! You'll be glad you did!
List of projects below:
Distributed Folding, ECCP, Folding@Home, Genome@Home, OGR (24 and 25), RC5, Sengent D2OL, SETI, UD, and TSC!
That's right...Team AnandTech participates, and ranks very well in most, of these fine projects. Here is a listing of some of the current rankings for the various Team AnandTech teams.....YOU could become a teammate and move (keep) the teams up on this list!
Team AnandTech list of world rankings
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SETI - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Are we alone? Help analyze radio signals from space in mankind's ultimate quest.
This, like RC5 and Prime95, is one of the original Distributed Computing Project and the largest such project in the world with nearly 4,000,000 people running the SETI client on an untold number of PC's.
Our Seti Team is currently ranked #8 in the world in the Club Category and #11 in the World overall...but, the teams in front of us have accelerated...making it difficult, if not impossible, to catch them....and the teams behind us (especially BBR...have gained 1200 PC's worth of power in one member....nearly doubling their daily output...and allowing them to rapidly catch Team AnandTech....and soon pass us..unless we get more Teammates! The team in front of us (#10) has over 600 more members than we do...and the team behind us has over 300 more members than we do ....we simply need more enthusiastic Teammates! You are invited to join us in what will one day be "First Contact".
For information go to our Seti Team Website: Team AnandTech Seti
We have lots of stats: Team AnandTech SETI Stats
To get started please refer to:
SETI Help and Installation and
Sukhoi's Help Index.
Smokeball's excellent SETI help and setup page
It may also be worth noting that SETI has recently obtained a 100Mbps connection and is now running very smooth. The team also has a nice list of Queues that you can use to obtain workunits and to monitor individual stats. Poof maintaines an excellent thread...
Poof's Queue Thread
Current situation: Chasing #10 (HWF) in the world....#12 team (BBR) has a member that has access to 1100+ workstations. They will overcome us in a few months at this pace
The SETI Team is building a Team Beowulf Cluster. Once done, it will (hopefully) consist of 24 nodes using Abit BP6 boards, dual Celeron 366's @ 550....all connected together to form a fast and VERY COOL parallel computer platform. Check it out in the DC forum
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RC5
One of the first DC Projects (behind Prime95 and a few others)...involving millions of PC's worldwide. In this project, users are attempting to "brute force" the RC5-64 key set to try to decrypt a single message, in order to prove how secure/insecure RC5 is. This project has been running for over 3 years and over 80% complete. TeAm AnandTech RC5 is currently #2 in the world...but are threatened to be dropped to #3 before the project ends.....jump on over if RC5 seems like an interest to you.
For information on RC5/OGR go to our RC5 Team Website: Team AnandTech RC5/OGR Team AnandTech RC5/OGR
Current situation: Hanging in at #2 in the world. #3 team (HZ) closing in fast. Possibly drop to #3 by end of project if pace doesn't pick up!
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ECCP
This project is an effort to solve Certicom's ECCp-109 Challenge. Certicom issued a series of challenges to test the security of elliptic curve cryptography algorithms against current distributed computing power. The project is rather small compared to other DC projects, so it doesn't take much computing power for a member to gain a high ranking. Currently, Team AnandTech is in a heated battle for 5th place in the world. So we cordially invite you to help us reach #1!
If that isn't enough incentive, the two people who find the solution each win USD $1000. Everyone who participates will help set a new computing world record!
For information on ECCP go to: Eccp-109 Challenge Home Page
Our ECCP Team Website: Team AnandTech ECCP
FAQ's: Team Anandtech ECCp-109 FAQ page
Current situation: Currently #5 in the world. Chasing, but losing ground to the top 4 teams in the world. Need to pick up pace if any hope to passing others before project ends.
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OGR
OGR is brought to you by the same people that bring RC5. In OGR, the goal is to find an optimal golomb ruler, a ruler where no 2 marks are the same distance apart. These OGRs are then used for things like X-Ray Telescopes and other scientific uses. We're currently finding the 25 mark ruler, and could always use some help to not only keep our #2 spot, but take #1. If you don't want to just "listen" to radio waves, but instead help scientists see things, OGR might be for you.
Team AnandTech OGR-24 - Team AnandTech is ranked #1 in the world.
Team AnandTech OGR-25 - Team AnandTech is ranked #2 in the world. Help us become #1!
Team AnandTech OGR Stats
Current situation:
OGR-24: Pretty much finished
OGR-25: #2 in the world....need to hold pace to keep from falling. Possible to overtake #1 with added power!
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UD
United Devices and Intel have launched a landmark research project that allows people to make a real difference in the fight against cancer.
Team AnandTech and the Intel-United Devices Cancer Research Project are asking you to volunteer your PC to help process molecular research being conducted by the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford in England and the National Foundation for Cancer Research. To participate, you simply download a very small, no cost, non-invasive software program that works like a screensaver: it runs when your computer isn't being used, and processes research until you need your machine. Your computer never leaves your desk, and the project never interrupts your usual PC use.
The UD client rewards you based on the amount of time you spend analyzing data, rather than the amount of data you return. This makes UD ideal to run along side other Distributed Computing projects. You won't analyze as much data, but you'll still be helping Team AnandTech work its way to number one!
UD Cancer Research Project FAQs
Team AnandTech UD Stats and Info on joining
Current situation: The UD Team is currently ranked #16
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Folding@Home
The Folding@Home project seeks to understand the process behind protein folding. In order to carry out their function (e.g. as enzymes or antibodies) the protein must take on a particular shape. It makes this shape by folding.
Understanding how proteins self-assemble ("protein folding") is a holy grail of modern molecular biophysics. What makes it such a great challenge is its complexity, which renders simulations of folding extremely computationally demanding, and difficult to understand. The Stanford group has developed a new way to simulate protein folding.
A protein can fold itself in one-millionth of a second. It takes 1000 computers to simulate a fold in the same amount of time. Stanford needs your help and so does Team AnandTech. Team AnandTech has jumped up the charts recently to #20 in the World. Jump on in and help the Team go even higher!
How to set up the gui client and join the Team
How to set up the no-nonsense command line client and join the Team
Link to the Folding@Home project
Current situation: Rocketing up the charts very quickly as of late. Now #19 in the world. Need more power to keep up this fantastic climb!
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GENOME@Home
Genome@Home along with Folding@Home is run by PandeGroup at Stanford
The goal of Genome@home is to design new genes that can form working proteins in the cell. The 4 main applications are:
Engineering new proteins for medical therapy
Designing new pharmaceuticals
Assigning functions to the dozens of new genes being sequenced every day
Understanding protein evolution.
Genome@Home project and Client download
* Once you've obtained the client, you'll simply need to unzip, install, and then start it up. A readme is included with the parameters. When installing for the first time, you'll need to enter your account info, and here's the important part, join TA by entering the team number when asked: 604374405
Team Anandtech stats
Team AnandTech FAQs
Currently TA G@H is fairly small but has still managed to reach No 32 in the team listings, and we need your help!
Current situation:
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Sengent D2OL
The Drug Design and Optimization Lab (D2OL)T works to discover drug candidates against Anthrax, Smallpox, and Ebola and will soon be adding targets for the top 5 major Bioterrorism organisms. By simply downloading the client, you can contribute the idle time available on your computer to fight biological weapons, even when not connected to the Internet. Currently, Team AnandTech is ranked #17 in the world.
Platforms: Windows 98/2000/NT/ME/XP
Download the client here
Team AnandTech stats
Current situation:
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Distributed Folding
The Distributed Folding project seeks to understand how proteins fold and assemble into living cells. Understanding protein folding will help make better treatments for diseases.
Proteins have a vast number of folds, larger than we could hope to compute even with distributed computing. Usually only one fold is found in nature. The Distributed Folding Project aims to test a new protein folding algorithm to see if it can reproduce natural protein folds after making extremely large samples of many different folds.
This is a project where every CPU really does make a difference. Even older computers (e.g. Pentium II), can make significant contributions, over 15,000 structures a day!
Team AnandTech is currently ranked #35 in the world. We really need your help! As this is still a relatively small distributed computing project, every CPU make a noticeable difference.
Download the client here
Team AnandTech stats
Current situation:
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TSC
The work we do on TSC will also have a direct impact on cancer research, and we will be testing the drugs we find as weapons against cancer. In addition the work we do to create a system to attack orphan diseases will form a prototype for work on other orphan diseases.
Download and information page here
Signup page here
Teams page listing is here
This project is very new and there is an established thread in the DC forum with much information: here
Current situation: Team AnandTech has jumped out and is #15 in the World in this new project
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Attention: Members of any Team AnandTech Club are welcomed to include their welcome message and a link to their club's website. Just PM Smokeball.
If you have any questions or comments on the many projects listed, jump on over to the Distributed Computing Forum and fire away...
We'll be waiting, and we hope you will join the Team soon!
Below are the projects that Team AnandTech participates in along with some helpful links and tidbits about the individual project. All the Teams really need more Teammates....as many of the other teams in the world have grown lately, while we've slowed down....but
YOU can help change the trend.
Look over the various projects....most are very easy to set up and run....don't require 24 hour/day operation (but once addicted, you may just do that)...and have almost no effect on your everyday PC(s) operations. If you have a question, please jump over to the Distributed Computing Forum and ask a question....or just say hello! You'll be glad you did!
List of projects below:
Distributed Folding, ECCP, Folding@Home, Genome@Home, OGR (24 and 25), RC5, Sengent D2OL, SETI, UD, and TSC!
That's right...Team AnandTech participates, and ranks very well in most, of these fine projects. Here is a listing of some of the current rankings for the various Team AnandTech teams.....YOU could become a teammate and move (keep) the teams up on this list!
Team AnandTech list of world rankings
_____________________________________
SETI - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Are we alone? Help analyze radio signals from space in mankind's ultimate quest.
This, like RC5 and Prime95, is one of the original Distributed Computing Project and the largest such project in the world with nearly 4,000,000 people running the SETI client on an untold number of PC's.
Our Seti Team is currently ranked #8 in the world in the Club Category and #11 in the World overall...but, the teams in front of us have accelerated...making it difficult, if not impossible, to catch them....and the teams behind us (especially BBR...have gained 1200 PC's worth of power in one member....nearly doubling their daily output...and allowing them to rapidly catch Team AnandTech....and soon pass us
..unless we get more Teammates! The team in front of us (#10) has over 600 more members than we do...and the team behind us has over 300 more members than we do ....we simply need more enthusiastic Teammates! You are invited to join us in what will one day be "First Contact".For information go to our Seti Team Website: Team AnandTech Seti
We have lots of stats: Team AnandTech SETI Stats
To get started please refer to:
SETI Help and Installation and
Sukhoi's Help Index.
Smokeball's excellent SETI help and setup page
It may also be worth noting that SETI has recently obtained a 100Mbps connection and is now running very smooth. The team also has a nice list of Queues that you can use to obtain workunits and to monitor individual stats. Poof maintaines an excellent thread...
Poof's Queue Thread
Current situation: Chasing #10 (HWF) in the world....#12 team (BBR) has a member that has access to 1100+ workstations. They will overcome us in a few months at this pace
The SETI Team is building a Team Beowulf Cluster. Once done, it will (hopefully) consist of 24 nodes using Abit BP6 boards, dual Celeron 366's @ 550....all connected together to form a fast and VERY COOL parallel computer platform. Check it out in the DC forum
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RC5
One of the first DC Projects (behind Prime95 and a few others)...involving millions of PC's worldwide. In this project, users are attempting to "brute force" the RC5-64 key set to try to decrypt a single message, in order to prove how secure/insecure RC5 is. This project has been running for over 3 years and over 80% complete. TeAm AnandTech RC5 is currently #2 in the world...but are threatened to be dropped to #3 before the project ends.....jump on over if RC5 seems like an interest to you.
For information on RC5/OGR go to our RC5 Team Website: Team AnandTech RC5/OGR Team AnandTech RC5/OGR
Current situation: Hanging in at #2 in the world. #3 team (HZ) closing in fast. Possibly drop to #3 by end of project if pace doesn't pick up!
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ECCP
This project is an effort to solve Certicom's ECCp-109 Challenge. Certicom issued a series of challenges to test the security of elliptic curve cryptography algorithms against current distributed computing power. The project is rather small compared to other DC projects, so it doesn't take much computing power for a member to gain a high ranking. Currently, Team AnandTech is in a heated battle for 5th place in the world. So we cordially invite you to help us reach #1!
If that isn't enough incentive, the two people who find the solution each win USD $1000. Everyone who participates will help set a new computing world record!
For information on ECCP go to: Eccp-109 Challenge Home Page
Our ECCP Team Website: Team AnandTech ECCP
FAQ's: Team Anandtech ECCp-109 FAQ page
Current situation: Currently #5 in the world. Chasing, but losing ground to the top 4 teams in the world. Need to pick up pace if any hope to passing others before project ends.
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OGR
OGR is brought to you by the same people that bring RC5. In OGR, the goal is to find an optimal golomb ruler, a ruler where no 2 marks are the same distance apart. These OGRs are then used for things like X-Ray Telescopes and other scientific uses. We're currently finding the 25 mark ruler, and could always use some help to not only keep our #2 spot, but take #1. If you don't want to just "listen" to radio waves, but instead help scientists see things, OGR might be for you.
Team AnandTech OGR-24 - Team AnandTech is ranked #1 in the world.
Team AnandTech OGR-25 - Team AnandTech is ranked #2 in the world. Help us become #1!
Team AnandTech OGR Stats
Current situation:
OGR-24: Pretty much finished
OGR-25: #2 in the world....need to hold pace to keep from falling. Possible to overtake #1 with added power!
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UD
United Devices and Intel have launched a landmark research project that allows people to make a real difference in the fight against cancer.
Team AnandTech and the Intel-United Devices Cancer Research Project are asking you to volunteer your PC to help process molecular research being conducted by the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford in England and the National Foundation for Cancer Research. To participate, you simply download a very small, no cost, non-invasive software program that works like a screensaver: it runs when your computer isn't being used, and processes research until you need your machine. Your computer never leaves your desk, and the project never interrupts your usual PC use.
The UD client rewards you based on the amount of time you spend analyzing data, rather than the amount of data you return. This makes UD ideal to run along side other Distributed Computing projects. You won't analyze as much data, but you'll still be helping Team AnandTech work its way to number one!
UD Cancer Research Project FAQs
Team AnandTech UD Stats and Info on joining
Current situation: The UD Team is currently ranked #16
_______________________________________
Folding@Home
The Folding@Home project seeks to understand the process behind protein folding. In order to carry out their function (e.g. as enzymes or antibodies) the protein must take on a particular shape. It makes this shape by folding.
Understanding how proteins self-assemble ("protein folding") is a holy grail of modern molecular biophysics. What makes it such a great challenge is its complexity, which renders simulations of folding extremely computationally demanding, and difficult to understand. The Stanford group has developed a new way to simulate protein folding.
A protein can fold itself in one-millionth of a second. It takes 1000 computers to simulate a fold in the same amount of time. Stanford needs your help and so does Team AnandTech. Team AnandTech has jumped up the charts recently to #20 in the World. Jump on in and help the Team go even higher!
How to set up the gui client and join the Team
How to set up the no-nonsense command line client and join the Team
Link to the Folding@Home project
Current situation: Rocketing up the charts very quickly as of late. Now #19 in the world. Need more power to keep up this fantastic climb!
_______________________________________
GENOME@Home
Genome@Home along with Folding@Home is run by PandeGroup at Stanford
The goal of Genome@home is to design new genes that can form working proteins in the cell. The 4 main applications are:
Engineering new proteins for medical therapy
Designing new pharmaceuticals
Assigning functions to the dozens of new genes being sequenced every day
Understanding protein evolution.
Genome@Home project and Client download
* Once you've obtained the client, you'll simply need to unzip, install, and then start it up. A readme is included with the parameters. When installing for the first time, you'll need to enter your account info, and here's the important part, join TA by entering the team number when asked: 604374405
Team Anandtech stats
Team AnandTech FAQs
Currently TA G@H is fairly small but has still managed to reach No 32 in the team listings, and we need your help!
Current situation:
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Sengent D2OL
The Drug Design and Optimization Lab (D2OL)T works to discover drug candidates against Anthrax, Smallpox, and Ebola and will soon be adding targets for the top 5 major Bioterrorism organisms. By simply downloading the client, you can contribute the idle time available on your computer to fight biological weapons, even when not connected to the Internet. Currently, Team AnandTech is ranked #17 in the world.
Platforms: Windows 98/2000/NT/ME/XP
Download the client here
Team AnandTech stats
Current situation:
_______________________________________
Distributed Folding
The Distributed Folding project seeks to understand how proteins fold and assemble into living cells. Understanding protein folding will help make better treatments for diseases.
Proteins have a vast number of folds, larger than we could hope to compute even with distributed computing. Usually only one fold is found in nature. The Distributed Folding Project aims to test a new protein folding algorithm to see if it can reproduce natural protein folds after making extremely large samples of many different folds.
This is a project where every CPU really does make a difference. Even older computers (e.g. Pentium II), can make significant contributions, over 15,000 structures a day!
Team AnandTech is currently ranked #35 in the world. We really need your help! As this is still a relatively small distributed computing project, every CPU make a noticeable difference.
Download the client here
Team AnandTech stats
Current situation:
_______________________________________
TSC
The work we do on TSC will also have a direct impact on cancer research, and we will be testing the drugs we find as weapons against cancer. In addition the work we do to create a system to attack orphan diseases will form a prototype for work on other orphan diseases.
Download and information page here
Signup page here
Teams page listing is here
This project is very new and there is an established thread in the DC forum with much information: here
Current situation: Team AnandTech has jumped out and is #15 in the World in this new project
____________________________________________________________________________________
Attention: Members of any Team AnandTech Club are welcomed to include their welcome message and a link to their club's website. Just PM Smokeball.
If you have any questions or comments on the many projects listed, jump on over to the Distributed Computing Forum and fire away...
We'll be waiting, and we hope you will join the Team soon!
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