Which distributed computing effort should I spend MY clockcycles on?
I'll be getting high speed internet soon, and since I won't be using it all the time (and I don't want my parents to have more bandwidth than they deserve), I'm looking for some way to expend my cable access and G5.
Seti is a bit of a dead-end project, however cool, in my eyes
Folding looks nice
Is GoogleCompute even available for the Mac?
Any others that I should look at?
Seti is a bit of a dead-end project, however cool, in my eyes
Folding looks nice
Is GoogleCompute even available for the Mac?
Any others that I should look at?
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Originally posted by a10t2
SETI is something that has trouble getting funding to buy their own computers. Drug companies have no trouble with funding biological research. My cycles vote for SETI.
You're aware that F@h is run by Stanford? And that the work they're doing actually has real social utility, and requires huge amounts of computing.
Seti@home is the scientific equivalent of the search for the heffalump.
I have unlimited licenses so it's even legal.
Originally posted by Splinemodel
I'll send you a copy of ElectricImage RenderSlave. Then you can render stuff for me.
I have unlimited licenses so it's even legal.
I thought that kind of thing had to be done over a LAN.
Originally posted by Placebo
I thought that kind of thing had to be done over a LAN.
All I need is an IP. Once the files to be rendered are sent, it's not a lot of data back and forth.
Renderman is extremely expensive and not really any better than EI for most things. so I don't have it.