• The BOINC Project

    From Gamgee@954:895/20 to All on Saturday, July 16, 2022 19:27:00
    Hello all, just wondering if anybody does anything with "distributed computing" projects. Specifically the "BOINC" project. It's designed
    to let you contribute your computer's "wasted" CPU cycles for something beneficial. If you have any computers that are always on but not really
    doing all that much, they might be a good candidate for something like
    this. I've been doing the projects known as "Einstein" and "Universe"
    for a couple of years now, and maybe they've gotten some benefit from
    it. In my case I have an Raspberry Pi 4 running for some random tasks
    like periodic dynamic DNS updates, idling in some IRC channels, sending
    me some automated reminder emails from cron jobs, and working on the
    BOINC projects. Most of these tasks run in TMUX windows/panes, so I can detach from them and they continue running until I re-attach and
    check/use them again. Very handy to just SSH back into the RPi and
    resume where I left off.

    Anyway, if you have, or are, also participating with BOINC, I'd like to
    hear about it. It's one of those things that can make you feel like
    maybe you've done a little bit of good in advancing some scientific
    research. Kind of satisfying stuff.

    If you're interested in some more info on this, their website is here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/


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  • From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to Gamgee on Sunday, July 17, 2022 20:59:12
    On 7/16/2022 7:27 PM, Gamgee wrote to All:

    Hello all, just wondering if anybody does anything with "distributed computing" projects. Specifically the "BOINC" project. It's designed
    to let you contribute your computer's "wasted" CPU cycles for something beneficial. If you have any computers that are always on but not really doing all that much, they might be a good candidate for something like this. I've been doing the projects known as "Einstein" and "Universe"
    for a couple of years now, and maybe they've gotten some benefit from
    it. In my case I have an Raspberry Pi 4 running for some random tasks
    like periodic dynamic DNS updates, idling in some IRC channels, sending
    me some automated reminder emails from cron jobs, and working on the
    BOINC projects. Most of these tasks run in TMUX windows/panes, so I can detach from them and they continue running until I re-attach and
    check/use them again. Very handy to just SSH back into the RPi and
    resume where I left off.

    Anyway, if you have, or are, also participating with BOINC, I'd like to hear about it. It's one of those things that can make you feel like
    maybe you've done a little bit of good in advancing some scientific research. Kind of satisfying stuff.

    If you're interested in some more info on this, their website is here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

    Thanks for this info. I checked out the site. It's not for me, but hopefully others will
    join.

    Mike Dippel

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