What does your PC do whilst it is idle?

[Stool]

This is something that interests me alot. The avg PC idles alot during the day and with 400Watt avg power supplies its a huge waste of resources on the grid.... so it might aswel do something useful i say....

Distributed computing.
Certain research groups needs pc's to analyse data to solve complex problems such as finding a cure for AIDS,cancer,muscular dystrophy and also other projects like climate prediction for the decades comming.

How it works is the program downloads small packets of data of the net to be analysed. It uses your cpu for the job when it senses it is idle and "backs off" immediatly when it senses the user is interacting with the PC again. Some programs you can set to only work whilst your screen saver is running and they come with snooze buttons to deactivate them for a period of time. When its done analysing the data it uploads the results and restarts with new data. The packets i noticed from United Devices was always about a 1MB download once a day with 200KB uploading.

Personally i like the cancer and muscular dystrophy projects cos i see loved ones suffering from it day to day and finally i can do something more about it.

Well i suggest you read these few pages if you interested. Stumbled across these new projects today.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
http://www.distributed.net/
http://www.computeagainstcancer.org/
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/
http://www.climateprediction.net/index.php
http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/
http://athome.web.cern.ch/athome/
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
http://www.distributedfolding.org/

WarGeeks has a team setup with the 1st link 'worldcommunitygrid'. BOINC clients can also participate by joining team #16594

see http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/te...mId=21G6QNL3S1 for team score/information details

[rainy]

I have been doing Seti@Home for years now, and I recently joined the Einstein@Home and Rosetta@Home projects. My PC happily does number crunching when it doesn't have anything else to do.

[Stool]

Glad to hear that Rainy

My stomping grounds now is the World Community Grid .Nice stable client

[rainy]

I don't want to run more than one client, the projects I mentioned all use BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu).

[Ruslan74]

How does this crunching affect your cap btw? Just curious coz my PC also does nothing whilst I am away.

[Stool]

Project start (downloads project data ~1.2MB)
Analyses (offline)
Project complete (uploads results ~200KB)

That whole cycle takes about a day or two per project

[Ruslan74]

Not that major. Thanks for the info will browse the forums when I get home.

[SlappY]

I want mine to scan for aliens!
Then we can go invade them.... and they will be like.... aaarghh.. the Aliens are invading...which is funny cause they are actually the aliens.

[Ruslan74]

I want mine to scan for aliens!
Then we can go invade them.... and they will be like.... aaarghh.. the Aliens are invading...which is funny cause they are actually the aliens.

kinda worried about you Slappy.

[sss]

mine runs a screensaver, i like to look at it sometimes