It's a great time waster ;)

Neil — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:03:28 -0400

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.

Which blogger can build the largest and most successful team in Protein Folding?

BenPac — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:11:19 -0400

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.

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It's a great time waster ;)

Which blogger can build the largest and most successful team in Protein Folding?