Boinc

[HairyHaggis]

Folks,

Just interested know how many of you guys run BOINC on your machines. For those of you that dont knwo what BOINC is, it is a distributed grid computing project that uses your free cpu cycles to crunch numbers some project are looking for ways to help cure cancer (cels@home) whilst others are searching for possible signs of ET (seti@home)

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

[cosmocat]

I've been running BOINC on my GBPVR server for about 3 years. The BOINC processes don't interfere with any of the other processes as they take a very low priority. It really is something for nothing.

A friend once asked me about "wasting" so much power with the machine running 24x7x52. My reply was that my central heating system is working for science !.