Re: Extropy.org and Folding@Home

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 27 2003 - 21:37:54 MDT

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    --- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> wrote:
    > > (Robert J. Bradbury <bradbury@aeiveos.com>):
    > >
    > > Make a contribution to defeating entropy -- devote your
    > > spare computing cycles to a project like Folding@Home.
    > > (I'm partial to F@H because it helps biologists understand
    > > protein folding which is one of the hardest problems to
    > > solve in biology [and solving it may help to develop better
    > > drugs and extend the human healthspan].)
    >
    > Not to mention that it's one of the few (if not the only) DP
    > projects that has actually published results in a legitimate
    > scientific journal (although GIMPS certainly can take credit
    > for producing real real results as well, even though they are
    > a bit more abstract in application). It's certainly a whole
    > bunch more useful than SETI, and can be run by those of us no
    > longer fueling the Microsoft gravy train.

    Well, SETI is set to send out work units for its most recent
    observations of the top candidates culled out of past data by the years
    of work done to date, so it is coming to a close, at least for the
    databank of observations to date (not all of the sky was observed).
    There are allegedly some really interesting candidates, though it
    turned out they had to make some massive corrections to lots of their
    data due to different dish slew rates at different times.

    Berkeley has a new project called BOINC, the Berkeley Office of
    Internet Networking Computation, which will release a general
    application which will allow users to choose how much of their
    machine's spare time goes to various different distributed computing
    projects, be it seti, protein analysis, etc... So it will act like a
    401k of computation. 25% for seti, 50% for protein folding, 25% for
    prime searching, etc...

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    Mike Lorrey
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