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Does anyone here participate in BOINC?
June 10, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Just wondering if anybody does.
If you don't know what BOINC is, is a way of helping science by using your free CPU time (which is usually wasted).
More information can be found here
BOINC main page:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
List of projects and their topics:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Project_list
I'm not English. Sorry for my mistakes!
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RE: Does anyone here participate in BOINC?
December 1, 2010 at 9:29 pm
(June 11, 2010 at 8:24 am)leo-rcc Wrote: No but I have done workunits for folding@home for the Atheists, Skeptics, & Humanists group.
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main...num=182116
Ditto, but for the
OotS group.
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RE: Does anyone here participate in BOINC?
January 15, 2011 at 11:17 am
I've been participating in Seti@home since 2004 and using boinc since seti migrated to it.
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RE: Does anyone here participate in BOINC?
January 15, 2011 at 11:19 am
BOINC is not some sort of deviant practice then!
Disappointed now
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RE: Does anyone here participate in BOINC?
February 28, 2011 at 7:18 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2011 at 7:24 pm by Rokcet Scientist.)
I ran it for years when it was still looking for E.T. in the SETI project. I never ran BOINC because BOINC aids fundamental academic research into e.g. protein folding and modeling, which requires ginormous computing power. The results of that research are subsequently sold for relative peanuts by the universities involved to big Pharma, who then turn around and sell it to the public, as medicine, at obscene prices and profit margins.
I don't feel like financing my own exploitation, or their coffers.
