Zxian Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Over the years, MSFN members have been putting their hard working idle CPU cycles to use by crunching data for various distributed computing projects. Popular favorites have included SETI@Home and Rosetta@Home. Now, we're diversifying, and trying to get as many members as possible to join working on their favorite projects. What is BOINC?BOINC stands for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. It is a distributed computing framework that allows research groups to distribute computational tasks related to their work to users who offer their computers to crunch the data. The work units are always run on lowest priority, essentially making them run when not in use.What's the benefit?For the researchers, BOINC provides the opportunity for computational tasks that would otherwise cost thousands, if not millions, in computer hardware. By distributing the work to users, they can also find bugs in their code much faster than if their project were conducted internally.For you the user, you get to be part of a project that could have long standing effects. Some projects are dealing with protein folding, which can help solve mysteries such as genetic diseases or cancer. Other projects are trying to solve mathematical problems. Further yet, some are trying to find evidence of extra terrestrial life. The possibilities are seemingly endless. Furthermore, depending on where you live, you can make a tax-deductible donation to your favorite project!Favorite ProjectsSETI@Home (Extraterrestrial)Rosetta@Home (Protein folding)Einstein@Home (Astronomy)ABC@Home (Mathematics)SHA-1 Collision Search Graz (Mathematics)Ok, I'm interested. How do I sign up?Download the BOINC software from the Berkeley homepage listed at the bottom of this post. Once installed, run the BOINC Manager. It will ask you to attach to a project, and provide a list of available projects. If you haven't created an account for the selected project, do so by providing your email address and a password of your choice. If you are connecting to multiple projects, it's best to use the same email address. Once you've connected to the project, join the MSFN.org team through your project account profile. If the project doesn't have an MSFN.org team, post here, and we'll create one for you!Projects with MSFN.org teamsRosetta@HomeSETI@HomeEinstein@HomeABC@HomeBOINC Homepage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted January 21, 2008 Author Share Posted January 21, 2008 MSFN.org Rosetta@Home Team discussion thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 Just throwing this out there for all those members still running Rosetta... how many active members do we still have? I've moved all my computers over to crunching Einstein@Home applications, since they seem to be a bit better organized, and they've also got optimized applications for their simulations. I'm getting more credit/time running at stock speeds now than I did with Rosetta at a 25% OC.On another note - the overall MSFN.org team is only about a month away from breaking the 2,000,000 credit mark! Let's keep up the good work everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Just throwing this out there for all those members still running Rosetta... how many active members do we still have? I've moved all my computers over to crunching Einstein@Home applications, since they seem to be a bit better organized, and they've also got optimized applications for their simulations. I'm getting more credit/time running at stock speeds now than I did with Rosetta at a 25% OC.On another note - the overall MSFN.org team is only about a month away from breaking the 2,000,000 credit mark! Let's keep up the good work everyone!I've still got 3 computers running Rosetta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted March 19, 2008 Author Share Posted March 19, 2008 Hooray!!! We've crossed the 2,000,000 credit mark!!! Go team!!!BoincStats - MSFN.org team stats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Hooray!!! We've crossed the 2,000,000 credit mark!!! Go team!!!BoincStats - MSFN.org team stats Mostly because of you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FthrJACK Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 what about folding at home? specially if you get people using it on their ps3's (as i do, and a lot of ps3 owners already do) -- cause the ps3 crunches that data up like nobodys business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted November 7, 2008 Author Share Posted November 7, 2008 I've tried Folding@Home on and off for quite a while. My main problem with it is the lack of support to run it as a service. BOINC is mindless to setup, and as long as the project software is stable, it's out of sight, out of mind. I have it running on all my systems in the background, and I've never had it noticably impact the performance of my system(each Einstein app uses about 60MB of RAM, priority is always set to Lowest).F@H seems like a great idea, but like a lot of simulation software I've dealt with it's simply unrefined and not easy for the "common joe" to setup and use. If you'd like to start an MSFN team under F@H, please do. I'd be glad to get my PS3 running on that whenever it's not in use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FthrJACK Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 yea its not an issue on the PS3. But on the PC its lacking a bit is the software, still it can be done!Could do it as a PS3 team though anyway, since the PS3 churns out far much more data than the pc will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hydroplant Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 (edited) i had boinc installed on my computer and it was using 100% of my quad core processes all the time and it was runing all the time to. i want to use it but i could not find out how to make it just run on idol i could not even watch movies or play games as it was hogging my cpu and i got quad core. any one have this issue? also was hogging my GPU stuff to i saw my temps rise and i got hella cooling on this machine. Edited June 13, 2009 by hydroplant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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