[Colchester] BOINC and Rosetta

[Sam Cater]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 18:37:20 +0000
"Jai Harrison" <jai at jaiharrison.com> wrote:

> 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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any discoveries will be used by the University of Washington for
medical research. :)

also on linux its the run_manager command you need

so in terminal, run the .sh from BOINCs website

then

cd BOINC

and 

./run_manger

btw people DO discover things

and ty Jai for doing it :)