[Colchester] BOINC and Rosetta

Jai Harrison jai at jaiharrison.com
Sun Dec 9 18:37:38 GMT 2007


I'm doing it now :)

I assume it's boinc-client and boinc-manager that I need.... and I'll
set it up for this Rosetta thing too.

Am I right in thinking that any discoveries made by Rosetta will be
freely available to the public?

On 12/9/07, Sam Cater <sacater at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:31:30 +0000
> Peter Weller <welp at 01welp.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Damn spam, stop attempting to sell your goshdarned viagra to us!
> >
> > On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 16:55 +0000, Sam Cater wrote:
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > A neat little thing the LUG could do is take part in the
> > > Rosetta at home project from BOINC (Berkley Open Infrastructre of
> > > Networked Computing Or something like that :P)
> > >
> > > Its basically a little free and open source program you download to
> > > your computer, you then latch on to scientific projects, such as
> > > rosetta, a protien folding program used to find cures for disease.
> > > BOINC can be configured in every way on how much CPU time, memory,
> > > etc it uses.
> > >
> > > I myself use Rosetta, and I hope we could form a little Colchester
> > > BOINC team and contribute to medical science :)
> > >
> > > Download BOINC for linux from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
> > > Then when it gives you a list of projects, do rosetta at home. Create a
> > > user through the GUI.
> > > Once you are latched on you can click on 'advanced view', for all
> > > the cool stuff :P
> > > go to http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta to change system resource
> > > usage and monitor your account
> > >
> > > Give me the word and i will make a Colchester team.
> > > need any more info ask me
> > >
> > > Sam
> > >
> > > P.S I have set BOINC to use 100% of my CPU. Despite this i notice
> > > practically no performance decrease, probably because it runs in the
> > > background
> > >
> > > and sorry for the scruffy email but im in a hurry :P
> > >
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> No, you are the one who needs it.
>
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