[Colchester] BOINC and Rosetta

[Sam Cater]

On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:49:52 +0000
Phillip Sacre <phillip.sacre at gmail.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately the fan on my machine starts making a sound like a jet 
> engine taking off when my processor usage reaches 100%, so
> unfortunately I've had to set it to a fairly low value :-(
> 
> But if you want to set up a Colchester LUG group I'm happy to join.
> 
> Cheers
> Phill
> 
> 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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> >
> >   
> 
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PLEASE NOTE TO _NOT_ use the Ubuntu repo version, its pre set up for
SETI, we are doing rosetta!!! get the .sh file off of BOINC's site