Time to update the "Welcome" thread

[BlackMountainCow]

Thx!

 

[Assimilator1]

:thumbsup:

 

[Spacehead]

Bump for reminder

 

[Smoke]

Let me see if I can get a little help on this.

 

[Spacehead]

I just PM'ed the mods again about the same time i bumped this.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

That's really strange. About two weeks ago I PMed the mods about this as well and they said they were alrady working on it, "but the welcome thread needed quite a lot of formating to do". I was like, ok, maybe. But that was two weeks ago.

 

[Spacehead]

I don't know what happened to the email i sent them, but in my latest PM i told them if it's that bad just grab the update from this thread.



edit- i just emailed the attachment with the updated thread that i sent to the mods to myself & previewed it here. I'm not seeing anything wrong with the format, so i don't know what the deal is

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Space, I never really thought that the delay is about formating ... either TA is so full of trolls and script kiddies or there are just too few mods. I mean, do you remember how long it took to get the BOINC project sticky ... :disgust:

 

[Smoke]

Welcome to the Team AnandTech Distributed Computing Forum! Here you will find plenty of great folks who would be glad to help you with the technical side of setting up and running distributed computing applications. You will find people who are more passionate about numbers than some mathematicians. You will find a great community who enjoy having [slightly] off topic discussions and helping each other immensely in real life.

So what is this "distributed computing" thing anyway? Distributed computing describes a system in which client systems receive work involving calculation of some sort from a server, perform the computation, and then send the results back to the server. Thus, it is possible to employ thousands or millions of personal computers, surpassing the power of many supercomputers.

You might ask, why would I want to donate my spare CPU time and electricity to something like this? A quick overview of the variety of projects listed below may well convince you that the very small cost of electricity required to run a computer 24/7 (hint: turn off the monitor to save power) is well worth the difference you can make in your project?s area of scientific research.

Some projects look outward into space, to look for extraterrestrial life, pulsars, and other things. Others look around, to chart the development of life on the planet, or predict future weather patterns. Yet others look inward, to analyze the structure of atoms, molecules, or proteins. Each project can have a great impact on the development of science in its area, and you can help!

Project website quick reference, by category:

Projects run under the BOINC platform --- BOINC Homepage

[*]Life Sciences

Malaria Control Beta --- Team name - TeAm AnandTech
Rosetta@Home --- Team name - TeAm AnandTech
SIMAP --- Team name - TeAm Anandtech
QMC@Home --- Team name - TeAm AnandTech
World Community Grid --- Team name - Anandtech


[*]Mathematics

SZTAKI Desktop Grid --- Team name - TeAm AnandTech


[*] Science

Climate Prediction --- Team name - TeAm AnandTech
Einstein@Home --- Team name - TeAm AnandTech
Leiden Classical --- Team name - TeAm AnandTech
LHC@HOME --- Team name -TeAm AnandTech --- Sometimes this project has no work to send out so it's best to run at least 1 other BOINC project at the same time.
SETI@Home --- Team name - TeAm AnandTech
µFluids --- Team name -TeAm AnandTech

The above list is only the more popular & stable of the BOINC projects.
For complete info on all BOINC projects, please see Fardringle's Comprehensive BOINC project list

To join one or more of these BOINC projects, choose "Attach to project" in BOINC-Manager, and copy the URL for the project you want to join. You can make an account in BOINC-Manager if you haven't got one from before. At the end, remember to visit the team-URL to join TeAm AnandTech.

For system requirements for each project, look here, here & here




Projects with their own Distributed Computing infrastructure

[*] Cryptography

OGR:RC5-72 --- Team name - AnandTech 10635


[*] Life Sciences

Community TSC --- Team name - Team AnandTech
D2OL --- Team name - Team AnandTech
Folding@Home --- Team number - 198 --- F@H setup guide by MDE
Ubero --- Team name - TeAm AnandTech
UD Cancer Research


[*] Mathematics

ECMNET
Euler --- Team name - Team AnandTech
SoB - Seventeen Or Bust --- Team name - Anandtech


[*] Science

DIMES Internet Mapper --- Team name - TeAm AnandTech --- Low CPU use, but a lot of Bandwith, and thus can be run along with another DC project.
DPAD --- Team name - Team Anandtech
eOn --- Team name - Team AnandTech
Evolution@Home
Stardust@Home - There are no teams for this, it's an individual project.




General DC Notes

Some projects, BOINC & non-BOINC, are down for extended periods. Either re-coding their clients, re-aiming their scientific search, possible lack of funding or many other reasons, not knowing when they will be open again. For that reason not all TeAm run projects are shown here. For the complete list of TeAm run projects, please visit our TeAm AnandTech Websites:
TeAm AnandTech DC Projects hosted by "amdxborg"

Many of the projects have daily stats threads posted by members here on the forums. If you have any questions about a certain project please post in the stats thread. If no thread is available, feel free to start your own thread.

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 the operation of your everyday PC(s).

For a general overview about Distributed Computing and various projects, please visit Kirk's Dstributed Computing Info site or the List of Distributed Computing Projects Wiki

If you have a question, please jump right in and ask ... or just say hello! You'll be glad you did, and we will, too!

 

[Smoke]

That was a test of the email I just got from Spacehead.

All I did was copy/paste ... looks like there should be no problem as far as I can see.

 

[Smoke]

I got a reply from the Mod on duty that the Mod that usually handles our "Welcome Thread" will be in later today.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Thx for the effort Greg!

 

[Spacehead]

OK, the welcome thread is now updated. At a glance it looks good. Let me know if you see anything wrong.


Thanks mods

 

[BlackMountainCow]

The only thing I see right now is the "/par" thingy at the end of the F@H line ... dunno where that one came from.

 

[Assimilator1]

thx smoke & spacehead