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I strongly recommend World Community Grid. They have some great projects right now including Computing for Clean Water and Help Fight Childhood Cancer as well as the 2nd phase of a Clean Energy Project. While Clean Energy Project probably will become a good project, it's still Linux-only, and therefore isn't an option for the moment for many users. Also, due to large file-uploads, even when the Windows and Mac-versions is finally released, some can't run it due to the bandwidth-requirements. Appart for this, WCG is probably the BOINC-project with highest uptime the last year, and most outages is counted in hours and not days, so will be a good backup-project regardless of your other choises. Oh, and since it's now possible to set the resource-share to zero, it will work as a real backup-project, meaning only asks for work if idle cpu, and if your other projects has work, is only run if in danger of missing the deadline. Atleast CPDN and WCG can now be set to zero resource-share, for other projects you'll need to test if this is possible (if not, it will revert to 100 if you tries it...). ____________ | |
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 [seti.international] Philip J. Fry Volunteer tester  Send message Joined: 6 Apr 07 Posts: 6566 Credit: 50,685,612 RAC: 20,128  | |
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A small overview of projects: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php | |
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I have been crunching WCG for 4 years and they have always had work units. One warning, keep your queue size down to one or two days because reprocess work units are sent out with a 4 day limit. Normal work units have a 10 day limit. I have complained about this problem but just last week I received a full queue of reprocess work units. I crunch everything they will send me instead of selecting projects and find that Aids work units are the most common ones but I most of the time I see other work units mixed in. They use different servers for the projects so if they have a server failure you still get work units from projects that are not on that server. | |
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Rosetta seems to be out of work presently. Wonder if it's a mad stampede from SETI people looking for something to do? Milkyway blessed me with a few days worth, so I'm good. | |
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I strongly recommend World Community Grid. They have some great projects right now including Computing for Clean Water and Help Fight Childhood Cancer as well as the 2nd phase of a Clean Energy Project. I have disagreed with the Right Honourable Gentleman in the past, but on this occasion I will endorse his opinion! ____________ Damsel Rescuer, Kitty Patron, Raccoon Friend, Uli Fan, Julie Supporter, ES99 Admirer, Dishonourable Mentions ** | |
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One aspect of Einstein@Home is that they are using data from Arecibo to search for pulsars. They may well find "other items of interest" in a complimentary way to the Astropulse search being done here at s@h. | |
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milkyway@home | |
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milkyway@home Something odd over at cosmolgy@home. You might want to review the message boards first. No work at the moment at orbit@home. They also are undergoing a hardware upgrade. | |
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Raistmer Volunteer developer Volunteer tester  Send message Joined: 16 Jun 01 Posts: 2541 Credit: 25,521,573 RAC: 42,181  | |
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Einstein for CPU, MW for ATI and Collatz for NV here | |
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I'd suggest one of the health/disease/cure projects. Sometimes this whole S@H stuff seems a bit silly when compared to finding a cure for cancer. That being said, I'm still here. | |
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Right now the US Navy Teams are running Malaria@home as there 'Project of the Month'(POTM) for November with PrimeGrid@home for the alternate project. | |
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1) Seti (currently set to NNT) | |
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Orbit@Home (when they have work available) Note that Orbit uses a 3-day deadline, so when they start issuing work again, don't use more that a 2 day cache. | |
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You could try MilkyWay@home, but if you don't have a beefy enough GPU (>512 MB), and aren't running BOINC for at least 4-5 hours per day, I wouldn't recommend it due to the size of the work units and the relatively short deadlines (when crunching with the CPU alone, work units may take 30 hours or more, and the deadline is 8 days). | |
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I've got a PC on World Community Grid and I'll bounce around to just about everything that has been mentioned just to "do" something.... | |
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milkyway@home Yeah I'm not really sure what's up with cosmology@home tbh. I don't really feel like calling the guy to find out. I'm not sure if it's recycling work units or what, but it's still giving them out so I'm still running them. ____________ | |
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Einstein is also down. Running AQUA and QMC at full speed. | |
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Einstein is up again. Two QMC units running in parallel on my two cores. | |
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I´ve got a few einstein tasks to keep my Phenom busy. | |
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Have never crunched anything but SETI. I have never crunched anything but SETI, and I never will. If SETI doesn't give me any WU's, then my machines gets turned off. I can't find any other project interesting or worthy. It's SETI or nothing, from the beginning and until ET is found and interrogated, and put in a prison on the moon :-) ____________ /The grumpy old Swede.  "I'm so old, that 98% of all trees in the forest, are younger than I am" | |
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