Ahoy, shipmates!

Came to think about various BOINC uses. I am participating in two projects: SETI@home and Climateprediction.net. The first one is fascinating considering the philosophical consequences of the issue. The second one is related to one of our most pressing global—planetary, if you like—problems for the time being.

There certainly are many other laudable BOINC based operations as well, see e.g. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php. Also: climate change is one of our most pressing global problems, but I didn’t say the only one. In some of those other problems no BOINC might be able to help the least bit at any case, but in some others no doubt it can. And of course the good Climateprediction.net project alone is not sufficient either, but let’s hope the December Copenhagen summit will be most successful.

However all this for the purpose of this message now, I sometimes feel tempted to attach my BOINC application to some more projects, too. Yet so far have always decided to keep concentrated into those two.

How have you other guys chosen and decided about your BOINC projects? Of course, as I am sending this message to a SETI@home forum and a Climateprediction.net message board, I am pretty sure most of you run one or the other of those. But what else perhaps, and based on which reasoning?

Regards

PK

I have already replied on the SETI forum. I think one chooses projects according to his interests and background. Since I have a physics and astronomy background I chose Einstein, QMC, AQUA,SETI and CPDN. Einstein looks for gravitational waves, AQUA simulates a quantum computer, SETI we all know what it is looking for,QMC is dealing with organic molecules via a MonteCarlo simulation. CPDN deals with the biggest problem for GAIA and I am running two models on my Linux box.
Tullio
I forgot LHC but it is practically dead.

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Another interesting project is QuantumFIRE, from Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University, which attempts to disprove the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Should interest those with a physics background.
Tullio

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Hello,
I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I've been receiving the message "No work available to process" for the last several months. I've signed up for climateprediction.net only. At first I thought it was just temporary. I was successfully participating for a few years prior, but perhaps some setting has changed on their end or on mine?

Thanks
K

The best place to post (and look for info already posted), is in the Number crunching section. At the top of there is the News and Information thread, which is where we post information that people need to know about.

As for work from this project, it's very intermittent these days.
You can check the Server Status in the blue menu to the left of here.

If you haven't been crunching for a few years, then you may not have the current types of models selected in your preferences on your Account page.

I posted a brief note on how the project is running these days here.

A big new batch of Pacific North West regional models has been released in the last few hours. However, with less than 10,000 of them, and 35,000 computers attached to the project, they won't last long.

Also check the computer requirements here to see if yours meets the latest requirements.

edit
The number of PNW models is now up to 15,000 and rising, so I must have caught the status page soon after they started being created.

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Backups: Here

Now up above 17,000 tasks ready to send. Also out of those 35,000 computers, many will be like mine and only requesting work once every two or thee weeks or less so as long as you have all the current model types listed in your preferences when a batch like this comes along you should get some work.

Dave

I am getting an error message on the first and third "here" link: error 403, like I was doing something unlawful. Running SuSE Linux 11.1 on an Opteron 1210. Tried also with Firefox 9.01, same result.
Tullio

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They both work for me. :)

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Backups: Here

Both links working here with firefox12.01 on Ubuntu. I don't know enough to work out why it might give a 403 on some machines.

Dave

Ich bin VERBOTEN!
Tullio
Probably my IP address of Telecom Italia is in a list of "bad guys". CPDN is the only, of my 7 BOINC projects, to treat me as such.

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