SETI@home will stop distributing tasks soon, but we encourage you to continue donate computing power to science research - in particular, research on the COVID-19 virus. The best way to do this is to join Science United and check the "Biology and Medicine" box.

Or just attach directly to Rosetta@home. ;-)

Cheers.

I'm willing to help but there is a question first:

Is there is a way to configure SU to only run Covid-19 related work?

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I'm willing to help but there is a question first:

Is there is a way to configure SU to only run Covid-19 related work?

Nope

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Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours

Or switch from BOINC to Folding@Home.

Or just attach directly to Rosetta@home. ;-)

Cheers.

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Why should a longtime BOINC-user switch to Science United and lose control on which project he/she likes to crunch? As well not all hardware/software suits every project, so a heavy BOINC-user will not be able to optimize his computers for a specific WU.

There's always the non-BOINC option Folding@home, which is apparently now the most powerful computer on Earth (though I don't think that rating is near high enough myself) as this is the project that the gamers are overwhelmingly supporting. It's doing as much COVID-19 as possible.

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So your posting for people to go to another "project" you're involved in called Science United? A little biased isn't it?

I'll stick with Rosetta or F@H directly then.

Having looked into projects to switch over to after SETi is gone....
Science United is a no go for me.

I want to pick what I work on not have it picked for me so
I'll do nothing rather than Science United.

After 3/31 - I'll find something else to spend my cycles on

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Well if you like Space .... Milkyway is a good project.

Bill F

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In October 1969 I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
There was no expiration date.

I am running mostly Milkyway@home in Science United. I have astronomy, physics and chemistry as first choice, medicine and biology, mathematics and earth sciences as second choice. But I never see them running.
Tullio

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Following a notice on theregister.co.uk which commented on the consortium of USA firms and scientific institutions to unite their supercomputers to fight the coronavirus reaching an aggregate power of 330 petaflops, I found a comment by Greg Bowman, the director of Folding@home, who said that Folding@home has reached an aggregate power of 470 petaflops. Possible?
Tullio

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Possible?

Depends how they're counting the flops. BOINC is currently claiming 24-hour average: 30.823 PetaFLOPS (home page, scroll to bottom), but since a large proportion of them are reverse-calculated from the BOINC credit awarded at Collatz, I'm not sure the claim would withstand audit by https://www.top500.org/

Just a proposal:

Why S@H don't make it's part on the Covid-19 crises and delay the end of new work for a couple of months, until the crises stops, that could help us to stay at home passing the quarantines.

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I don't believe the data given by Bowman. If Summit ( number 1 of Top500), Sierra (2) and other super aggregated together reach 330 petaflops, it is impossble that an assembly of PCs reaches 470 petaflops.
Tullio
Sorry, my first version was in Italian.

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I don't believe the data given by Bowman. If Summit ( number 1 of Top500), Sierra (2) and other super aggregated together reach 330 petaflops, it is impossble that an assembly of PCs reaches 470 petaflops.
Tullio
Sorry, my first version was in Italian.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

24-hour average: 30.823 PetaFLOPS.
Active: 141,417 volunteers, 835,414 computers.
Daily change: +1590 volunteers, +21523 computers.

Excuse me (or don't), but I won't be signing up my computer for something that's going to run whatever it wants instead of being a single, specific project that I choose myself and know exactly what resources it allocates and how and why. Also won't be signing up for something specifically intended for a less tech-savvy audience, as the description states.
Now something like Science United is useful in attracting new people to distributed computing, yes, but frankly I find seeing it promoted to existing users quite concerning...

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Greetings

In regards to SU, thankyou but no thankyou.

My computers and my choice as to what projects I crunch.

Why the duplication though????

Running WCG and GPUGRID, with the odd FOLDING@HOME (When I can get work though).

Cheers

I have joined Science United as an experiment, but I am a long time BOINC user. When I run LHC@home tasks , for instance, as a BOINC user my tasks appear in the Science United mine home page among the tasks listed in the page Scientific Projects.
Tullio

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As of now. Team.se joins Foldingathome.org

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TRuEQ & TuVaLu