For Serious Computer Geeks Only (distributed Computing)

[hookahmike]

One of my other things in life is computers, and I enjoy my life over @ xtremesystems.com, where I also do distributed computing to hopefully help the world when I'm not using my computer. My group (XSTM) is having a friendly contest w/ the forum administrators and Mods in May. Usually there is a lot of fun and trash-talking to be had.
This is for people who are willing to leave their computers on 24/7 for May and beyond. Clients exists for Windows Linux & mac (I use windows and Linux)

If anyone is seriously interested, pm me here and I w/ send you back more info on how to join the XSTM 'family' and set up your computer for this.

Some more info and links below - check them out to see if this looks like something you would want to do

Thanks for Reading MikeE

THE GREAT MAY WCG CHALLENGE!

Coming THIS MAY 1:
THE GREAT MAY WCG CONTEST: XSTM vs. XSTA! XSTM NEEDS YOUR HELP to JOIN THE FUN!!!

PLEASE HELP XS OUT HERE, crunching cancer and aids to death while having FUN..

As a member of these great forums I'm urging my fellow XS members :toast: to join us in this great contest whether as a member of the above teams or START UP YOUR OWN

To install and setup WCG please read this:Mini How to:fact: posted by NickS in the WCG Area:) ...

Members of XSTM and XSTA are also available to answer any xtra questions on how to setup WCG if you need xtra help :fact:

COME JOIN IN THE FUN THIS MAY

WHAT WCG IS - Some History of this project

The United Devices Smallpox Research Grid Project was sponsored by IBM other Research Participants to accelerate the discovery of a smallpox cure. The Smallpox study employed computational chemistry on a massive distributed computing grid to analyze candidates for a medical therapy to fight the smallpox virus.

The project allowed scientists to screen 35 million potential drug molecules against several smallpox proteins to identify good candidates for developing into smallpox treatments. In the first 72 hours, 100,000 results were returned and 44 strong treatment candidates were identified at the completion of the project.

Based on the success of the Smallpox study, IBM announced on November 16, 2004 the creation of World Community Grid with the goal of creating a technical environment where other humanitarian research could be processed.

World Community Grid initially only supported Windows, using the proprietary grid technology from United Devices which powers grid.org projects. Strong demand for Linux support led to the open source BOINC grid technology which powers the Seti@home and Climateprediction (among others) being added. Mac OS X support is now also included.

As of March 24, 2007, the World Community Grid had nearly 272,000 members with over 550,000 registered work stations. It had a total process run time equivalent to about 82,000 years and about 80 million results have been sent. The World Community Grid updates these statistics several times a day, making the information available through a dedicated statistics page.

What is World Community Grid ?

it is a scientific research project that benefit the human race, it is funded by IBM and is currently available for windows, linux and mac operating systems.

How Grid Computing Works

Grid computing joins together many individual computers, creating a large system with massive computational power that far surpasses the power of a handful of supercomputers. Because the work is split into small pieces that can be processed simultaneously, research time is reduced from years to months. The technology is also more cost-effective, enabling better use of critical funds.

Completed Projects

Human Proteome Folding Phase 1

The first major project launched on the grid was the Human Proteome Folding Project, or HPF1, which aims to predict the structure of human proteins. Devised by Richard Bonneau at the Institute for Systems Biology, the project will use World Community Grid to produce the likely structures for each of the proteins using a Rosetta Score. From these predictions, researchers hope to predict the function of the myriad of proteins. This increased understanding of the human proteins should prove vital in the search for cures to human diseases. Work on this project was officially completed on July 18, 2006.


Active Projects

FightAIDS@Home

The FightAIDS@Home project was launched by WCG on November 15, 2005 as its first project to target a single disease. Each individual computer processes one potential drug molecule and tests how well it would dock with HIV protease, acting as a protease inhibitor. FightAIDS@Home had, until May 2003, used the Entropia distributed computing platform.

Human Proteome Folding Phase 2

The third project, Human Proteome Folding Phase 2 (HPF2), was released on June 23, 2006. This project, following on from HPF1, focuses on human-secreted proteins, with special focus on biomarkers and the proteins on the surface of cells as well as Plasmodium, the organism that causes malaria.

Unlike the first phase, HPF2 uses higher resolution models of proteins, which are much more useful, but those also require higher-end computers.

This project was the first to be run exclusively by World Community Grid, and not shared with any other grid project. World Community Grid have stated that all future projects will be exclusive to them.

Help Defeat Cancer

This project was released on July 20, 2006. It seeks to improve the targeting of treatment for breast, head, and neck cancers. Large numbers of tissue samples are processed using tissue microarrays. These are scanned and processed using image filtering techniques.

Genome Comparison

The Genome Comparison project was released on November 21, 2006, from Fiocruz in Rio de Janeiro. It will seek to compare gene sequences of different organisms against each other in order to find similarities between them. Scientists hope to discover what purpose a particular gene sequence serves in a particular function of one organism, via comparing it to a similar gene sequence of known function in another organism.

Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy

This newest project was released on December 19, 2006 by Décrypthon (a collaboration between French Muscular Dystrophy Association, French National Center for Scientific Research and IBM). The project investigates protein-protein interactions for 40,000 proteins whose structures are known, with particular focus on those proteins that play a role in neuromuscular diseases. The database of information produced will help researchers design molecules to inhibit or enhance binding of particular macromolecules, hopefully leading to better treatments for muscular dystrophy and other neuromuscular diseases.

SO - Now that you have info on what this project is all about, COME put those idle CPU cycles to good use & HAVE some FUN
It might even save your life one day! !!!!

[djbomberto]

hum........

[hookahmike]

Please explain 'hum'?
Is that a good or bad Hum, and did you go over there and look...
Thanks Mikee

hum........

[joetuo]

It's really pretty amazing at the amount of idle time your processor has. If something like this were to get into the business world they could crunch so many calculations over night it would be sick. Think of a big company and then have all there computers switch this on at say 7 o clock at night and then turn off at 5 am. I mean the computers are not doing anything at this time except sitting there. Only argument would be electricity bill.

[Scheetz]

doing some folding eh.

[hookahmike]

Folding was last week, this is a different project called WCG
Bleeding out a WC rig for an X2-6000+, part of the game.
Probably talking 2-300Ghz each side or more

doing some folding eh.

[djbomberto]

Honestly someone sucking your resources for "Projects" is not my idea for "Serious Computer Geeks". its more like for the causal user whom thinks its going to benefit someone. "Serious Computer Geeks" have better things to do.