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What attracts you to your favourite DC project ?

TAandy

TAandy

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Saturday night, full glass, half empty bottle (I'm a pessimist 😀 or should that be 🙁 )
Like many, if not all on this TeAm and forum, I'm addicted to DC projects. Started with SETI in 1998 and have since been involved in UD, FAH, GAH, Distributed Folding, Find-a-drug, Entropia, Parabon, Ubero (what's the point in this, there's so many people crunching for nothing when they could be doing something usefull ???. They may as well see how many times their PC's can count to one hundred), PopPow, eccp, Neo, SOB, Zetagrid plus a few I can't remember but I finally settled on D²OL.
Why did I settle on D²OL:
1. Knowing (especially after 9/11) there are some headbangers out there who would be only too willing to release viruses (virii ?) or blow themselves to bits in their rush to get to heaven and who don't care how many innocent people they take with them 🙁
I live in a country where the paramilitaries nail people to gates and bend the nails over to make it harder to get them out 🙁 🙁 🙁 as a punishment so something like this wouldn't surprise me.
2. It's possible to build up a good stats count (when the stats and servers are running properly.)
I don't like these projects that take one day for one WU. I'm too impatient 😀
What attracts you to your favourite DC project ?
Anybody else care to comment, and as usual, if you've seen it all before, just ignore me 🙂
PS
No, I don't have anything personal against Ubero, just that it's a waste of CPU time 🙂
PPS
The lights are on, but nobody's home!
 
medical projects, my father in law died from ALS (often called Lou Gehrig's disease) in 1990

now i am not saying that the protein folding projects are going to directly help ALS research, i don't know, i don't understand that stuff (the science) , but maybe it can

stanford's customer service totally turned me off of F@H and their abandonment of G@H (as its own project) made me mad also

DF-distributedfolding has everything for me, great client (CLI, no java, native service install), no need to download work (except for new protein's every 1-2 months), nice stats (official stats update every TEN minutes, a moderate stats whore's dream!, with excellent 3rd party stats), cross -OS support DF currently has clients for 13 OS's 😎

the customer service that howard feldman, the guy that runs it on a day-day basis, provides is outstanding, he is responsive to the DF community and also promotes his project. he recently appeared on Toronto TV internet show to talk about the DF project. ( interview in Windows Media Player ASF format ) ( i had to download the file and run it locally for it to work on my PC)
🙂
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
medical projects, my father in law died from ALS (often called Lou Gehrig's disease) in 1990

now i am not saying that the protein folding projects are going to directly help ALS research, i don't know, i don't understand that stuff (the science) , but maybe it can

stanford's customer service totally turned me off of F@H and their abandonment of G@H (as its own project) made me mad also

DF-distributedfolding has everything for me, great client (CLI, no java, native service install), no need to download work (except for new protein's every 1-2 months), nice stats (official stats update every TEN minutes, a moderate stats whore's dream!, with excellent 3rd party stats), cross -OS support DF currently has clients for 13 OS's 😎

the customer service that howard feldman, the guy that runs it on a day-day basis, provides is outstanding, he is responsive to the DF community and also promotes his project. he recently appeared on Toronto TV internet show to talk about the DF project.
🙂
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Could you ask him to take charge of D²OL?
 
Originally posted by: andyjones
Could you ask him to take charge of D²OL?
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huh

i have run D²OL a little, but i won't deploy it beyond 1 PC as long as the problems continue

with so many DC projects to choose from, i choose not to put large CPU cycles onto projects with chronic problems, although i like to try just about all of them to be "in the know" on how the client software works and such

it is regrettable that some projects are run by people with lower passion for their projects/or low resources or whatever the reasons behind the problems
 
Distributed folding for me (obviously, being team leader).

Worthwhile cause, great user support on everything and anything from Howard, who's super responsive. It doesn't take a top notch machine to produce worthwhile results at all, and they keep on improving the client, as in "more... more... more..." and "better... better... better..." (results that is).

As FoBoT also pointed out it's also easy to set up for nearly all OSes plus it's got built-in installation as a service for Windows.
 
I started off 3 yrs ago running Seti@home. I ran this exclusively until about 45 days ago, when I discovered Seventeen Or Bust. This project interested me because although it had been running since April this year, it is still reasonably small (however the number of people in this proiject has tripled in the time i've been running it, mainly due to all the exposure from finding 4 new Prime numbers.

The project's smallness is what attracted me. After running Seti for 3yrs, and even joining in with 2 other people, it was difficult to move any further up in the rankings, and to be honest, i was starting to get bored with it, and the cheating scumbags were also making it worse.

In SB I am high in the rankings, and I know that someone with only a few computers on the project (I currently have 4, a total of about 6 GHz) can easily catch up/pass, and you don't need too much horsepower behind you to progress. Also the fact that I have been voted as Team leader for Anandtech helps with the reasons to run it 🙂

Confused
 
I did the RC5-64 project after reading banner ads on other websites. I finally followed them and somehow wound up finding out about the great DC community here at AnandTech. My first block was turned in on May 20, 1999 and my last block was on September 22, 2002. The client is small and highly configurable. Enough so that you can keep the cow out of the system tray if you want. Plus I ran my own personal proxies so I could have stats whenever I wanted them, and a ready supply of work to do.

When I heard they had gotten the RC5-72 client out of alpha and were counting work units I quit SETI and moved all my machines at home over to it on December 4, 2002. Yeah, I may not live long enough to see the end of this project if the winning block is hidden at the end, but I get to hang out with everyone here in the forums and keep up on all this technology.

I've got a little over 12GHz at home and another 5.5GHz at work crunching away on this project. Needless to say, I need more power! arh! arh! arh!
 
I started with Folding@Home way back in the v1 days, and due to numerous problems with the client and its interaction with dialup connections, I switched to RC5. After running that for a little while and getting bored with it, I switched to OGR. That project didn't hold my interest for long either, so I finally switched to ECCp-109, and ran that until the end of the project (except for a short vacation to help in SETI@Home when our Team was racing with DSLR). After ECCp-109 was finished, I started helping with Folding@Home again, since the v3 client had improved much since the v1 days. The things that attract me to Folding@Home are the medical research, and of course, the stats also. 🙂

FWIW, I'm not upset with the stanford people's "customer support." Many of the developers frequent the Folding Community Forums and answer questions.
 
Originally posted by: jliechty
I started with Folding@Home way back in the v1 days, and due to numerous problems with the client and its interaction with dialup connections, I switched to RC5. After running that for a little while and getting bored with it, I switched to OGR. That project didn't hold my interest for long either, so I finally switched to ECCp-109, and ran that until the end of the project (except for a short vacation to help in SETI@Home when our Team was racing with DSLR). After ECCp-109 was finished, I started helping with Folding@Home again, since the v3 client had improved much since the v1 days. The things that attract me to Folding@Home are the medical research, and of course, the stats also. 🙂

FWIW, I'm not upset with the stanford people's "customer support." Many of the developers frequent the Folding Community Forums and answer questions.
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I was there in the FAH v1 days. 😀
I remember there were stats problems, but they were nowhere as bad as D²OL has at the minute. I don't know what the hell's going on with this project. They were offering a reward of 25000$ at one time for the best candidate discovered but now they can't even offer 24 hours server usage without crashing !!!
 
For me SETI has by far been the most easy, reliable, flexible, client around. I much prefer running the SETI client over any other. Problem is I don't believe in little green men. If D2OL or any of the worth while projects ran like SETI and had the third party support that SETI does then I would be all over it. For now I'll split my time between one worth while project (D2OL) and one that runs like a champ (SETI).
 
started with RC5-64 a long time ago (can't remember tho), but when RC5-64 ended I started searching for another project (altough I liked OGR the fact that it simply doesn't work and we all just waste our money and ressources by that). Decided to try F@H and been doing it since. Why? Hmm, I like what its doing (helps in many ways, and I think it might help against Alzheimer... and I think I've got that already 😉 ), its looking cool (console and FoldinGL) and works well (ok, so the servers have some downtime sometimes... but no one gets lost). Oh... and they have a well optimized core... always something good 🙂

Ps: andyjones comment was probably that the DF guy should help those D2OL guys out 🙂 And if he's doing that he might have a look at F@H and distributed.net 😀
 
Curiosity got me started.....

I tried several different projects and one by one they either pissed me off, didn't work right/consistantly, weren't doing work I was interested in or had no one participating..... (I don't want to talk any of them down specifically because what was totally wrong for ME is many times totally right for someone else and overall, DC is a good thing and I would encourage anyone to crunch ANY one of them if they like it.)

I ended up with DF. It is an unbelievable client doing work I want to be part of. There isn't a single job or combination of jobs I do on these computers (mostly gaming or CAD) that I ever need to even consider turning DF off. It just steps out of the way seamlessly. The DF team is full of people I respect, and more importantly, I like. So it's home.

Read FoBoTs' post (above) he hit it on the head. If you are looking for a project, I couldn't say enough good things about this one.

-Sid
 
well, at least the CPU usage part counts for F@H too... (D2OL has problems tho...). But I still think the best clients were the RC5-64 ones. Didn't took a lot memory, didn't interfere with my applications, simply worked well and flawless. But since UD... :|
 
Originally posted by: Baldy18
For me SETI has by far been the most easy, reliable, flexible, client around. I much prefer running the SETI client over any other. Problem is I don't believe in little green men. If D2OL or any of the worth while projects ran like SETI and had the third party support that SETI does then I would be all over it. For now I'll split my time between one worth while project (D2OL) and one that runs like a champ (SETI).
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Thay's very well put !!. BTW did you read my Look into my eyes properly ??? I don't think you did 😀 😀 😀 😀
 
I started out with SETI back in September, because I wanted to help out TeAm Anandtech, and because it appeared (to me) to be the most popular project. Since then i've kept running it because it's rather easy to set up, and it works great on dial up using a queue! Much easier than when I would transmit WU's manually from each rig in my house.

I also tried running UD alongside of SETI but I dropped that, I didn't like the client, and it was a hassle for me on dial up.

Lately i've tried projects like Seventeen or Bust (nice client, easy to gain stats), Find A Drug (good cause, TeAm has very few members), and D2OL (duh...cow tipping!).

Lately i've been trying to do projects that have a noble cause, such as finding cures for diseases etc, but i'm a stats-a-holic and I need my stats. I like to run projects that have some interest (so people post stats) or have a nice page to view stats on 🙂
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
i have run D²OL a little, but i won't deploy it beyond 1 PC as long as the problems continue
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Well I run D²OL not only despite the problems but also because of the problems! :Q 😕

Yes, you read that right; I figure it takes a fairly hardy individual to shrug off the myriad problem with this project and strike out to face the elements.. to surge against the onslaught of users who have been abandoning this venture like an avalanche!

Yes, truly, I choose the danger! And I(along with other rugged individuals) continue the valiant struggle in the face of overwhelming odds and uncertain management. Truly, this project is a test of wills - yet I know that we, Team Anandtech, shall prevail!! 😉


 
Originally posted by: networkman
Originally posted by: FoBoT
i have run D²OL a little, but i won't deploy it beyond 1 PC as long as the problems continue
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Well I run D²OL not only despite the problems but also because of the problems! :Q 😕

Yes, you read that right; I figure it takes a fairly hardy individual to shrug off the myriad problem with this project and strike out to face the elements.. to surge against the onslaught of users who have been abandoning this venture like an avalanche!

Yes, truly, I choose the danger! And I(along with other rugged individuals) continue the valiant struggle in the face of overwhelming odds and uncertain management. Truly, this project is a test of wills - yet I know that we, Team Anandtech, shall prevail!! 😉
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Well said Rich, WELL said. 🙂
 
Started RC5-64 4/8/99 probably becuase I heard of some other distributed project finishing up that only took1 day to crack. So I ran that and csc when it when to 200% completion of the keyspace. I tried some seti@home when TA was really small and the top person had like 1000 wu. I enjoy being on a small team where my work seems to make more of a difference. I tend try medical related projects although I have being doing sob for some time now, and will probably continue until I get at least 1000 G cEMs because our team needs all the help it can get and because I started the team.
 
SETi, mainly for the Babes, Beer and Hot Tub when you reach a milestone. 😀

But actually what attracted me to Distributed Computing, and what keeps me here, is not the specific project, but all the great teammates and friends I've met here. To me it's always Team Anandtech! and all projects are under that umbrella. 😀

You all truly help those who ask for it (and some that don't 😉), and not just with their DC questions, but questions of all sorts, equipment, trades, and even when needed, monetary support. 😀

We are a competitive lot, but we rarely lose sight that it is supposed to be in fun, that we (within the team and outside the team) are all working towards the same goal. 😀

I've learned so much from the experts on this team, and continue to learn from them. to me, Team Anandtech is the best, whether we are 1st or 31st! 😀
 
Originally posted by: RaySun2Be
SETi, mainly for the Babes, Beer and Hot Tub when you reach a milestone. 😀

But actually what attracted me to Distributed Computing, and what keeps me here, is not the specific project, but all the great teammates and friends I've met here. To me it's always Team Anandtech! and all projects are under that umbrella. 😀

You all truly help those who ask for it (and some that don't 😉), and not just with their DC questions, but questions of all sorts, equipment, trades, and even when needed, monetary support. 😀

We are a competitive lot, but we rarely lose sight that it is supposed to be in fun, that we (within the team and outside the team) are all working towards the same goal. 😀

I've learned so much from the experts on this team, and continue to learn from them. to me, Team Anandtech is the best, whether we are 1st or 31st! 😀
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Gotta be said twice!
 
Originally posted by: Insidious
Originally posted by: RaySun2Be
SETi, mainly for the Babes, Beer and Hot Tub when you reach a milestone. 😀

But actually what attracted me to Distributed Computing, and what keeps me here, is not the specific project, but all the great teammates and friends I've met here. To me it's always Team Anandtech! and all projects are under that umbrella. 😀

You all truly help those who ask for it (and some that don't 😉), and not just with their DC questions, but questions of all sorts, equipment, trades, and even when needed, monetary support. 😀

We are a competitive lot, but we rarely lose sight that it is supposed to be in fun, that we (within the team and outside the team) are all working towards the same goal. 😀

I've learned so much from the experts on this team, and continue to learn from them. to me, Team Anandtech is the best, whether we are 1st or 31st! 😀
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Gotta be said twice!
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To the last two posts,...
I'll drink to that !!!!
 
Well, the only thing (without reading other replies) for me being attracted to my project is the people on these forums. I know this sounds cheesy, but it's the truth..

Wolfie
 
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