NationStates Jolt Archive

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/create_account_form.php?teamid=602

Visit the link above and download BOINC. It's a program that uses computers from all over the world to try to find cures for human diseases by analysing proteins. It can be set to only work when the computer is inactive, or only during certain hours. So come on, people! put your excess CPU time to good use!

I installed the BOINC client when SETI moved to it, but never could get it to work properly. Have they improved the client, or is it still buggy and unusable?

I installed the BOINC client when SETI moved to it, but never could get it to work properly. Have they improved the client, or is it still buggy and unusable?

Well, the version I'm using I've had no problems with. I don't even notice it's running, and I have it set to run all the time. The Climate Prediction BOINC project is supposed to run slow when each module finishes, but that's like once a month.

I installed the BOINC client when SETI moved to it, but never could get it to work properly. Have they improved the client, or is it still buggy and unusable?

Last time I used it, you had to set the preferences through the different projects' webpages, and I got tired of that really fast. It not always respecting those settings was a bitch, too.

Lest time I used it, you had to set the preferences through the different projects' webpages, and I got tired of that really fast. It not always respecting those settings was a bitch, too.
Yeah, but joining the project through the link I provided makes you join my team with the team's preferences. That should work for most people, I think. And besides, how often do you have to change preferences?

I installed the BOINC client when SETI moved to it, but never could get it to work properly. Have they improved the client, or is it still buggy and unusable?
It's full of bugs still, but I use it anyway to run ClimatePredicition.net. There's no point running SETI@Home at the moment, as the number of users is so much greater than the number of WUs that they send each one out at the least six times (in the good old days they used to send each one out twice for data integrity reasons, but now the Arecibo can't produce enough data for all the users).

Hang on, isn't there a similar thing to BOINC called Folding?

Hang on, isn't there a similar thing to BOINC called Folding?
They're planning on adding that to BOINC. BOINC actually contains many different projects. You can participate in any or all of them. I'm not sure how Rosetta@home differs from Folding@home - they both analyse proteins.

You pressured me into it.....I'm easy today.

Anybody else want to administer gross peer pressure?

I installed the BOINC client when SETI moved to it, but never could get it to work properly. Have they improved the client, or is it still buggy and unusable?
Same ... I was building a kick ass ammount of packets in seti too (I was at the 12 k mark in under 6 months)

Simonist']You pressured me into it.....I'm easy today.

Anybody else want to administer gross peer pressure?
Did any of you guys even join? I'm still seeing a '1' under the number of people in the team.