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[Tumetsu]

Yesterday I got impulse to reinstall Boinc back to my computers and start running Seti@Home again. Is here anyone who runs Seti or perhaps other similar programs? We could make a TIGS team  
I go by name "Tumetsu" in that service too.

[moi]

I go on planethunters sometimes

[Manuel Magalhães]

Boinc sounds pretty sweet, count with me if we get to form a team.

[Tumetsu]

Ok, I created a team in Seti project:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=143114

Welcome :D

Btw, if you think that searching aliens is useless, there is some different projects available:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects

[Riley Adams]

rosetta@home is a pretty cool protein folding boinc thingy: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_about.php

Though I'm a little biased, since it's made by a lab at my school and I work on Foldit (protein folding game that was born from rosetta@home)...

[Core Xii]

I ran it for a while, given that I have a quad core which is underutilized most of the time. But I can't afford to shorten the lifespan of my hardware right now, so I ceased.

[Tumetsu]

I ran it for a while, given that I have a quad core which is underutilized most of the time. But I can't afford to shorten the lifespan of my hardware right now, so I ceased.

Yeah, that's something to think about. I might remove it from my main computer in future because of that. But I'll probably leave it on my netbook which I use just for writing in uni lectures.

[Trevor Dunbar]

If they wanted to simulate these things way faster than our crappy computers could ever hope for, they would build a super computer or rent out amazon's super computer with 17,024 cores, 66,000 GB of memory, and a ten gigabit Ethernet interconnect.

I would run one of these programs, but I hate maxing out my computer for hours on end, it just sticks in the back of my mind and bothers me.

[Tumetsu]

Except that it costs lot of money and Seti isn't exactly best funded project  Also, the network is built from millions of computers so i imagine it really is worth it for them.