anyone take part in a distributed computing project?

[sleeper]

if so, which ones do you recommend and what are your thoughts on them?

ive been thinking about it and im not sure which are good, or where to look or anything. i wanted to take part in an art one, but i couldnt find any that didnt look retarded

[Nimrod's Son]

Either there's a typo in there, or I just don't follow what you're trying to say.

[sleeper]

i fixed it. i understand it might be difficult for some to conclude that "domputing" was actually meant to say "computing."

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally posted by sleeper
i fixed it. i understand it might be difficult for some to conclude that "domputing" was actually meant to say "computing."

Actually when I use my laptop and take a crap at the same time, I call it "dumputing."

[tsp gatmog]

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
Actually when I use my laptop and take a crap at the same time, I call it "dumputing."

[killed radio star]

i used to run seti@home, and i might start back up on it or folding@home.

[Brandont_h]

Originally posted by sleeper
if so, which ones do you recommend and what are your thoughts on them?

ive been thinking about it and im not sure which are good, or where to look or anything. i wanted to take part in an art one, but i couldnt find any that didnt look retarded

Do you mean something like SETI@Home or whatever that's called? I dunno if it still exists, but I used to do that one back in the day. It was my screen saver.

[tsp gatmog]

Originally posted by Brandont_h


Do you mean something like SETI@Home or whatever that's called? I dunno if it still exists, but I used to do that one back in the day. It was my screen saver.

oh its still alive.

[sleeper]

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
Actually when I use my laptop and take a crap at the same time, I call it "dumputing."

even by your standards thats a bad one. i cant believe that guy is rolling all over the floor laughing at that

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally posted by sleeper


even by your standards thats a bad one

.. uh, yeah, that was a joke... :erm

[sleeper]

i meant bad joke

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally posted by sleeper
i meant bad joke

I know what you meant. Obviously you didn't know what I meant....

[tsp gatmog]

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
I know what you meant. Obviously you didn't know what I meant....

i know what he meant when he didnt know what you meant. but i ofcourse know what you meant.

[sleeper]

Originally posted by killed radio star
i used to run seti@home, and i might start back up on it or folding@home.

not necessarily with seti, but are there some where you can adjust the bandwith or resources you let it use? but instead of down, i mean up. i was reading and most of them say that it only takes x tiny amount of bandwith per month or whatever, and i was thinking while im at work or sleeping i can just let it use everything or whatever. is that common?

[sleeper]

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
I know what you meant. Obviously you didn't know what I meant....

no, i know what you meant. im not a fan of puns

[killed radio star]

i dunno. for bandwidth, it shouldn't really take much at all. you're downloading these work packets, and they take quite a bit of time to get completed and sent back. i'd imagine that the programs only talk to the server a few times a day, which really ought to be a tiny amount of bandwidth.

as for dedicating a designated fraction of your cpu cycles - i don't know that either . the distributed computing forum over at the anandtech forums might be able to better inform you.

[sleeper]

thanks ill dig through that now