Alright, I'm back, which project should I start on?

[Agent31]

Howdy all Long time no see...

out of SETI, Genome, Folding... I don't really care which one I set my computer at doing, which one should I start off on?

Dave

[Marshmallowman]

DF?
Now that of overtaken you, you can TRY to catch up

[Rattledagger]

Seti@home is the best bet, with stable easy-to-use client, no time-limit like in folding@home or DF, and the largest active MURC-team by far...

Seti@home has 107 active.
Genome@home has 6 active users.
DF has 6 active.
Think has still some traffic... I don't know how many...
Folding@home has never been active...

[Marshmallowman]

Found any aliens yet

[Jon P. Inghram]

Play Everquest, get lots of phat lewt, and then leave a bazaar mule active 24/7... it's just about as usefull as Seti@Home.

[Rattledagger]

Well, since I've run 4 of the 5 projects, I think I can say that seti has the best client, with excellent caching due to SetiQueue, and no time-limit as with the other projects except Genome...

Actually, from my point of view, DF is the worst, since:
1; The time-limit is hidden... you must fairly often check if it's now you must remember to dump all the crunched data.
2; You're getting the same credit for all wu, but different wu has markedly variance in crunch-times. Even seti with the slow-down due to v3.03 is better.
3; To effectively use DF, you must assign 150 MB memory. Hmm, I've not currently got $200 to buy more memory...


As for running Seti, since there's no terrestrial intelligence to detect, hopefully there's some extraterrestrial intelligence...

[Marshmallowman]

Well if you want a nice score pick whatever.

But if you want to actually do something usefull with your spare cycles....

[High_Jumbllama]

1. Time limit? You mean the version change? The command line version autoupdates itself with no trouble at all well within the time limitation unless of course you are trying to run it on a pentium 100.

2. Cannot deny that. Proteins are different sizes. Too bad the number of folded proteins cannot be multiplied by their size which is still not accurate as a protein of double the size takes more than double the time.

3. Effectively? It was an enhancement to make it faster. It still runs fine without the option turned on.

[breezer]

I have found DF the easiest distributed project to set-up and administer, at work I have a launcher that checks of df is on the pc, launching it if it has, if no client is found it copies the files to the pc and then launches the app. No further input from me is required.

Due to having a little baby and preparing for a major network/os upgrade at work DF is very much on the back burner.


Breezer

[High_Jumbllama]

Launcher? A script of sorts?

[breezer]

Launcher ish, I have an exe that checks for the existance of a file/directory, if its not there I copy the file across.
I'll check tomorrow at work.