[Colchester] BOINC and Rosetta

[Sam Cater]

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