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A worthy grid computing project
2004-07-13, 11:04 AM #1
https://www.grid.org

You can choose to help with cancer treatment or smallpox treatment, or both.

It runs on idle time (like all of them) analyzing ligands fits into proteins.

I find this much more preferable to seti@home and other projects, due to its helpful nature.

I recommend it. Plus, it's cool to look at the 3d structure of the ligands and proteins.
2004-07-13, 11:47 AM #2
Yeah, well seti finally contacts the aliens I'm sure they'll give us a cure for cancer. So screw you.

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2004-07-13, 12:18 PM #3
Take it easy. SETI doesn't contact aliens, it searches for fluctuations in radio to try to determine if there is a remote possiblity that they exist. We tried to establish contact with that fancy probe a while ago. Goodness knows how terribly that is going to fail.
2004-07-13, 12:48 PM #4
I'd like to see more of these projects converted to the BOINC architexture so that it'd be easier for people to split their processor time between multiple projects.
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2004-07-13, 2:00 PM #5
I'd rather run that one that makes pretty pictures. But in reality, my computer is in use pretty much all of the time, and when I'm not using it, I shut it off, so...

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Stuff
2004-07-13, 3:29 PM #6
No Linux clients? Geeze, seti@home even has ports to PA-RISC!


Yeah, those buggers can burn in hell. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

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2004-07-14, 9:16 PM #7
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hebedee:
Take it easy. SETI doesn't contact aliens, it searches for fluctuations in radio to try to determine if there is a remote possiblity that they exist. We tried to establish contact with that fancy probe a while ago. Goodness knows how terribly that is going to fail.</font>


Yeah, I know, it's just...yeah, I'm not funny.

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COUCHMAN IS BACK BABY
2004-07-15, 1:52 AM #8
Have you shunned WINE, GBK?
2004-07-15, 3:59 AM #9
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hebedee:
Have you shunned WINE, GBK?</font>


Thats not the point. Sure, its entirely possible that the win32 client would run just as snippy under Linux+Wine, but I shouldnt have to use Wine, there hsould be a native client for *nix.

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Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
:wq
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2004-07-15, 8:23 AM #10
Gee guys, who would have thought that GBK would post more annoying and useless garbage about Linux in a thread that has absolutely nothing to do with Linux! He sure isn't a pox on the forums at all, right guys??!

...Downloading. Gonna help cure cancer.
2004-07-15, 8:33 AM #11
go Jon!

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