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Hey guys and gals,
Would you like to help us show the world how important The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is to us? Would you be willing to donate your unused computer power to a good cause? Want to do these two things and have a lot of fun at the same time? If so, you should join our distributed computing team!!!
Distributed computing is using the combined power of many networked computers to accomplish a large amount of computationally-intensive work. By splitting up the work into little pieces and letting anywhere from hundreds to millions of computers each do a little bit and send in the results, projects that would normally be impossible even for supercomputers or fleets of supercomputers become possible for home users even!
So what do these projects work on? There is everything from mathematics research, science research, medical research, to cryptography, paid programs, and ones completely for fun. We are currently involved in a project called Rosetta@home but will probably branch out later on, once the team takes off! Check out our team here! We've already moved up from 2900th place to nearly 800th place.
This is where the fun comes in. Distributed computing is also a competition. Who can do the most work, who has the fastest computers, who has the most computers and leaves them on the longest, who recruits the most members, etc. You're competing worldwide. When your team does well, you get recognition from everyone involved.
So what do you have to do? It's very simple. You download and install a small program and let it run in the background on your computer. It runs at "idle" cpu priority, and only uses the processing power that you aren't otherwise using for anything else. It can't slow your computer down, and puts all of that unused power to use! Right now as you read this, your cpu is barely being used...probably less than 1% of it's potential processing capability is being used!! The program connects to the Internet about once a day and downloads a small bit of data. Then whenever you aren't using all of your CPU power, it crunches away at the work and when done uploads it back to the project. The work is then combined with what thousands of other people do and real results can be seen.
Rosetta@home, the project we've started with, is a medical research project pioneered by the University of Washington. It studies and predicts protein structures involved in protein folding.
We want everyone to see "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms" up at the top of the list. We want to branch out and do other projects as well! Join us, put that unused power to a good cause, have a lot of fun doing it, and help us show how important the RKBA is.
Check out our DC forum here for more info and to join up! http://www.icarry.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26
Current stats:
Members: 11
Recent Avg. Credit ranking: 157
Current overall ranking: 805
Hey guys and gals,
Would you like to help us show the world how important The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is to us? Would you be willing to donate your unused computer power to a good cause? Want to do these two things and have a lot of fun at the same time? If so, you should join our distributed computing team!!!
Distributed computing is using the combined power of many networked computers to accomplish a large amount of computationally-intensive work. By splitting up the work into little pieces and letting anywhere from hundreds to millions of computers each do a little bit and send in the results, projects that would normally be impossible even for supercomputers or fleets of supercomputers become possible for home users even!
So what do these projects work on? There is everything from mathematics research, science research, medical research, to cryptography, paid programs, and ones completely for fun. We are currently involved in a project called Rosetta@home but will probably branch out later on, once the team takes off! Check out our team here! We've already moved up from 2900th place to nearly 800th place.
This is where the fun comes in. Distributed computing is also a competition. Who can do the most work, who has the fastest computers, who has the most computers and leaves them on the longest, who recruits the most members, etc. You're competing worldwide. When your team does well, you get recognition from everyone involved.
So what do you have to do? It's very simple. You download and install a small program and let it run in the background on your computer. It runs at "idle" cpu priority, and only uses the processing power that you aren't otherwise using for anything else. It can't slow your computer down, and puts all of that unused power to use! Right now as you read this, your cpu is barely being used...probably less than 1% of it's potential processing capability is being used!! The program connects to the Internet about once a day and downloads a small bit of data. Then whenever you aren't using all of your CPU power, it crunches away at the work and when done uploads it back to the project. The work is then combined with what thousands of other people do and real results can be seen.
Rosetta@home, the project we've started with, is a medical research project pioneered by the University of Washington. It studies and predicts protein structures involved in protein folding.
We want everyone to see "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms" up at the top of the list. We want to branch out and do other projects as well! Join us, put that unused power to a good cause, have a lot of fun doing it, and help us show how important the RKBA is.
Check out our DC forum here for more info and to join up! http://www.icarry.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26
Current stats:
Members: 11
Recent Avg. Credit ranking: 157
Current overall ranking: 805
