[Colchester] BOINC and Rosetta

Sam Cater sacater at googlemail.com
Sun Dec 9 18:34:26 GMT 2007


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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