Parsad Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Short, but interesting article. Cheers! http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/online-gamers-crack-aids-enzyme-puzzle-161920724.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I've played FoldIt, it's nice (and very challenging). There's also the automated version developed by the same lab at the University of Washington that you can run in the background on your computer (it only uses CPU cycles that would be idle). It's called Rosetta@home and it does very cutting edge science (the computational design of proteins is a holy grail of biology and would totally change medicine): http://boinc.bakerlab.org/ I've been running it since 2005 (mostly in the winter, since it heats up the apartment with electricty that is actually useful) and have accumulated 3.6 million credits :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stahleyp Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 hahaha. Liberty, you are a man after my own heart. ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 hahaha. Liberty, you are a man after my own heart. ;D :) Do you also run distributed computing stuff? If so, which projects are your favorites? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stahleyp Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 hahaha. Liberty, you are a man after my own heart. ;D :) Do you also run distributed computing stuff? If so, which projects are your favorites? I have ran one in a long time. I tried the SETI one a long time ago and I looked at one of the cancer ones or something a while back. I liked the part about heating your apartment with it. haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 I liked the part about heating your apartment with it. haha. I live somewhere where we have tons of very cheap hydro power, so we have electric heating. I figure I might as well have that electricity do something useful for humankind before it heats the place :) It would be even better if I had a dozen old PCs that I could use to heat the whole place from one end to the other during the cold months.. Comfort from science, literally! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seshnath Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 I have ran one in a long time. I tried the SETI one a long time ago and I looked at one of the cancer ones or something a while back. I liked the part about heating your apartment with it. haha. I had tried SETI as well. Haven't had spare computing power/net connectivity since that time to try other projects. Are there any projects out there like SETI now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 I had tried SETI as well. Haven't had spare computing power/net connectivity since that time to try other projects. Are there any projects out there like SETI now? SETI's the grandpa, but there are now a ton. Many in the life science, astronomy, mathematics, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seshnath Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 I had tried SETI as well. Haven't had spare computing power/net connectivity since that time to try other projects. Are there any projects out there like SETI now? SETI's the grandpa, but there are now a ton. Many in the life science, astronomy, mathematics, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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