Don't take my post to serious and I truly don't want to say bad things about the other project but this is my opinion.

climate prediction: I think it's almost completely wasting your power because those predictions really aren't correct. Those 'green' people say the sea level will rise 10 centimeters a year and half a year later they say it's only 3 centimeters. The sea level changed a lot since the existence of our planet but never before in history it is measured so much.
It's the some with the ozone hole in our atmosphere. They began to measure and they saw the hole was growing and now they so it's shrinking above antartica, so again they were wrong.
10 years ago there were plans to heat up the earth because they thought there was the beginning of a new ICE AGE! One of the american presidents had a talk about that in Rusland but now it's all forgotten.
I'm not saying we're not destroying the earth, I think we are. But measuring the earth for 50 years doesn't give a good image of how to save our planet.
You can better all use your bicycle when you go to work. I personally almost never use the car. My school is 15 kilometers away but I'm faster by bike then by bus or by car. And all the other places I go to are less then 4 kilometres away. And here you may not drink alcohol when you drive a car so I still not get it why every one is complaining about high oil prizes, just go by bike. And the most easiest way to save the earth is a birth restriction on the complete planet, but that's almost the hardest solution.


Rossetta: as I heard they make new software for folding molecules. They made the software for hpf on WCG. By crunching they can make better software.

Seti: It would really remarkable if we would find aliens. But the downside is that they are light years away from us. And like a Dutch comedian said:
"there are only two possibilities if you find aliens:
1., they are smarter than us
2. they are dumber than us.
If they are smarter, they will find us before we will find them. If they are dumber I don't want to meet them"


WCG: It is a really good project but the only downside is I think the program source is not free. If it was you could really see if you are really crunching for humanity and you could compile the workunit yourselves what would speed up about 10 %.

It can't be, impossible. The complexity and dependencies of the algorithms working in the right order with the right timings do not permit individual science application compilation at the present time. Several projects do use open source science like Autodock on FA@H and upcoming Dengue, but as it is, if 3 work units were processed by different compilations, they would not come back as equal.... no way to know which one is the right one. That's why WCG uses Homogeneous Redundancy distribution for the 4 different operating systems serviced, as also each OS is of impact on the computation.

The work units are just data sets, separate from the science app. They don't need to be 'compiled'. Anyone can open them up to see what's inside.

Opposed to molecular, atomic and energy level computation, I'm reasonably sure that a project like ABC@home could do with self compilations. The output is simply a set of 3 numbers (abc-triples).

sorry

Hello dseto,
Here is a list of public distributed computer projects: http://distributedcomputing.info/projects.html
Here is a list of BOINC projects: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php

If you want to run several BOINC projects, think about your profile settings for Leave in Memory (best turned off for BOINC 5.8 and higher) and the time to spend per project (60 minutes by default, but I think that is a very small slice of time). Also think about the weight allocated to each project (equal weights is easiest to remember but a very small weight allows you to select an emergency project that normally will only be crunched if your other projects go offline for longer than your cache buffer size can cover).

Happy crunching
Lawrence

Why would it be best to Leave in Memory turned off?

In 5.8 there may have been 1 or 2 conditions left to keep LIM on. Did not pay attention during benchmarks while testing 5.10, but if they now keep the job in memory automatically (?), LIM is more or less outdated. For sure it did not do that in 5.4 and it was the only reason i left it on in 5.8.... anyone?

Benefit is, that if you do scheduled project switching, the job is in memory, whereas if LIM is off, each time you do a project switch, it has to fetch it from disk.... lost CPU cycles, with the said price of hogging RAM. It's main function was keeping a job loaded, but from 5.8, the project switching is done at checkpoint saves.

NOW HERE'S SOMETHING TO KNOW: If you are writing a long post or been thinking and you want to see if someone posted in meantime making your post a possible repetition, hit the post preview button and scroll down. You will see any additional posts, like now seeing that Didactylos already cut the grass before my feet :D