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Which project for these criteria (um?? ae??)

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Anywho, I'm running an XP Pro 1600+ with 256PC2100. I will only be able to connect to the net once a week, /maybe/, albeit with cable when I do connect. Thats scenario one. The second one would be an always-on cable connection with the same rig (once i convince my parents to let me network). Ah, and my CPU is almost always 98% free. I want it to be something important and spiffy, so no calculating pie to a bajillion places or anything. What have yall got for me?

EDIT: I, er, cough, had a typo on yall. But i fixed it.
 
if you would like to help conduct some medical research, that may some day help scientists develop new drugs to cure diseases, consider the Distributed Folding project (see the link in my sig for the FAQ)

it would work for both situations. it can be run offline for a long time and work cached up, or run online and the work returned immediately
 
Same goes for Find A Drug. You can cache a lot of work and upload it later. It is also working for cures to Cancer, HIV, and Bioterrorism Antidotes. Also on new herbicides and pesticides.

Link
 
Alrighty. I got me some Folding@Home. IT feels good to be doing something.... However, I got the GUI one (not the screensaver, but not the cmd-line based one either - it was "recommended for most Windows users"), and I can't find anywhere to tell it to download extra work for when I'm offline. Where might that be?
 
folding @ home doesn't have a way to cache work while you are offline , as far as i know, F@H requires you to reconnect after each work unit. that would be fine for your always on connection, but the other one that only connects once a week will have a problem, which is why i recommended DF instead, it doens't have to connect as often

good luck!
 
I also recommend Find-a-Drug. It's caching works by multiplying the CPU speed selection by the planned number of connects. For example, the 1600+ runs around 1.4GHz (correct me if I'm wrong). For the CPU setting, you would choose 1.0-1.5GHz. You would also set the planned connections to weekly. This will result in 21 jobs downloaded. If it runs out and you still haven't connected, the client will start generating new work from the work it's already done so there's no wasted time.
 
You can use Folding@Home on the system with the always-on connection and it will work excellently. But you should consider another project for the one that can not connect all the time, since you wouldn't be able to meet the Folding@Home WU deadlines, and F@H can not cache WUs.
 
Originally posted by: lane42
I keep enough Seti workunit's on my computer's at work to last for week's 😀
Click to expand...

Now there's I guy I'd be willing to bet had gone through the great SETI Server outages of 2000......

😀

 
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