EuanH78
24-11-2013, 04:12 PM
Anyone using boinc?
Basically it allows grid computing projects to use your idle cpu/ gpu cycles to do mathematical problems/ constructs for projects requiring massive computing power. Volunteer computers reduce the research times of these studies, In fact without volunteer PCs donating their computing power most of this research would be unfeasible. Requiring many, many supercomputers.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
I'm currently volunteering my PC to Rosetta@home to do protein folding which potentially could help development of proteins to fight diseases (Cancer, Alzheimers, HIV etc.)
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
Basically it allows grid computing projects to use your idle cpu/ gpu cycles to do mathematical problems/ constructs for projects requiring massive computing power. Volunteer computers reduce the research times of these studies, In fact without volunteer PCs donating their computing power most of this research would be unfeasible. Requiring many, many supercomputers.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
I'm currently volunteering my PC to Rosetta@home to do protein folding which potentially could help development of proteins to fight diseases (Cancer, Alzheimers, HIV etc.)
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/