[Preston] Distributed projects like SETI

[James Green]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:14:23AM +0000, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> Does anyone know about any other projects that run on linux apart from SETI? 
> There are a lot of interesting looking projects but they're all windows 
> based. I've not looked into this for a while and I got a bit fed up with seti 
> and no longer run it. I'd be more interested in running one that did medical 
> research or something like that.

IIRC folding at home, which simulates protein folding, runs under Linux
quite happily - <http://folding.stanford.edu/>. This is meant to have
great potential for being medically useful, though I forget why offhand
:)

Less medical, but there's also GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime
Search, which runs under Linux. You can find out about that from
<http://www.mersenne.org/> IIRC.

Hope this helps,

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