Anyone know anything about this project? Good, bad, indifferent? I'm very interested in helping find a cure for diabetes, and hypertension and schizophrenia are bonuses for me too.

[Edit] Here's a link for those who are interested: http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/

Anyone know anything about this project? Good, bad, indifferent? I'm very interested in helping find a cure for diabetes, and hypertension and schizophrenia are bonuses for me too.

[Edit] Here's a link for those who are interested: http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/

Never heard about it, looks interesting. But i am not interested in health. Only in science.

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Never heard about it, looks interesting. But i am not interested in health. Only in science.

There are several health related BOINC projects with a interesting science and a great science goal. Imho SIMAP (builds protein sequence database), Malaria Control, Rosetta and POEM in protein folding and Lattice and WCG with several health (sub)projects and Docking (protein ligand docking).

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Anyone know anything about this project? Good, bad, indifferent? I'm very interested in helping find a cure for diabetes, and hypertension and schizophrenia are bonuses for me too.

[Edit] Here's a link for those who are interested: http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/

Hi Ozzfan, I've been running it. It's ok. When team running POTM that I'm not attached to, I run it on some of my rigs. finding a cure for illness'es & disease's is Science & beneficial to man.

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I have run it. It is a cool project. Try it. It takes some memory to run it, but that should not be an issue; everybody seems to have "Core 4 Octo" with 16GBs of RAM nowadays (except me).

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Well, I decided to try the project out. After attaching to the project, I noticed they had no work immediately available. No big deal. BOINC will just download more when there is some available.

About a day or so later, I noticed that my BOINC screen saver was in text mode with the generic BOINC graphics. I looked at what was crunching and saw that I finally had some Superlink@Technion work. No screen saver graphics. Not a deal breaker either, as the science is more important, but I really like seeing the pretty graphics.

I then took my computer out of screen saver mode and checked the RAM usage, since the website said I needed 1GB of RAM to run. Sure enough, with four units running, all 4GB of my RAM was being used. Nice. But that meant nothing was left for Vista's SuperFetch caching. Not a big deal either, as soon as the apps finish, Vista will simply re-load the cache. Note to self: maybe I should consider a RAM upgrade, it is cheap after all.

I also noticed that all the WUs were running at High Priority. Checked the message boards and saw that they plan on increasing the deadlines of the workunits to avoid this in the future. That's a good thing because I don't think its fair every time SuperLink gets work that it runs in priority over all other projects simply because their deadlines are about two days out.

All in all, my first impression is that SuperLink is OK. I wish they'd build a screen saver for their app and fix their deadline issue. If anyone wants a project that will utilize gobs of RAM that is installed on their system, SuperLink will do that too.