Anyone that leaves their computer on a lot, check this out - Tuner-Junction

njn63 · #1 (**permalink**) March 17th, 2007, 08:50 PM

Folding@Home Distributed Computing

Really interesting project. It especially interested me when i saw Alzheimer's Disease mentioned because our family has a history of it.

jadkar · #2 (**permalink**) March 17th, 2007, 09:59 PM

I've seen this before but not with medical illnesses. My friends Quad Core DL585 server he "borrowed" from work is running something like this called "seti" and he's searching for aliens....no shit

Quad 2800 processors with 64gig of memory sitting there looking for space invaders!!

SETI@home

dogyamissedit · #3 (**permalink**) March 17th, 2007, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by jadkar

I've seen this before but not with medical illnesses. My friends Quad Core DL585 server he "borrowed" from work is running something like this called "seti" and he's searching for aliens....no shit

Quad 2800 processors with 64gig of memory sitting there looking for space invaders!!

SETI@home

this guy in one of my classes last semester suggested the SETI thing.

I read over the site and from what I saw they have your computer processing radio signals received from outer space on their dishes for any semblance of intelligence (as opposed to random gamma bursts etc)

same principal tho you dl their software and then you process their data in your downtime.

njn63 · #4 (**permalink**) April 26th, 2007, 02:55 AM

If anyone is using this and not on a team, Honda-Tech's team is 54515. We already destroyed SHO but it's interesting seeing how high we can get on the rankings.