Hi There Nodalpoint users,
As a way to promote rosetta@home, a project dealing with the ab initio folding of proteins (determination of the 3D-structure of a protein without the use of a template, solely based on the amino acid sequence) I would like to suggest a little competition.
Which blogger can build the largest and most successful team in Protein Folding?
How to participate?
Sign up at rosetta@home (http://boinc.bakerlab.org/)
Start a team with the name of your blog
Leave a comment to this post (http://yourscicom.com/blog/?p=41) at YourSciCom to enter the competition.
Let the folding begin!
It's a great time waster ;)
I used to be signed up to a lot of these BOINC projects. It's only worth it if you have access to a network of computers that don't get a lot of use. Your average heavily-used desktop will take days to return a result. It's also easy to become rather obsessive about your BOINC project stats. I quit them all eventually in the interests of productivity and health.
That said, distributed computing is definitely A Good Thing - if you're sysadmin for a classroom.