[Colchester] BOINC and Rosetta

[Peter Weller]

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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