Distributed Computing

[Borisw37]

I am looking to do some distributed computin on the 2 machines i have sitting here pretty much used for e-mail and forums, occasional gaming. I ran folding a while ago and i think its pretty boring. I dont meen to offend any hard-core folders, but there is just no that much excitement over it, and it overrated (in my opinion)
i am doing www.imp.org which is a pov-ray (ray tracing 3d rendering software) community that makes movies and needs people to render frames. But they rarely have any work.
So i am looking for something new and exciting in the world of distributed computing (not folding or seti)

Got any ideas?

[Deathknight]

Originally posted by Borisw37
I ran folding a while ago and i think its pretty boring.

:eek: :eek: Surely you did not fold for team32. We are a bunch of wild and crazy guys!! :cool: :beer: :sn:

[Twigs]

you dont run a distributed computing program for the fun, you do it for the cause, run folding, dont go searching for aliens or something stupid like that, do something that can help humanity

[Borisw37]

as i mentioned i am not planning on running SETI. And i am sure there are plenty of good other causes besides folding, not that i have anything against it.

[JigPu]

I agree that the fun factor has quite a bit of weight when choosing a project. If SETI were no fun to me, I'd be folding right now (though that's not gonna happen since I'm so close to 10K WUs! :D).

If you want the big list o' distributed computing projects, check out THIS (http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/) site for the 'active projects'. I haven't used any other DC then SETI, so I don't know how fun some projects will be, but that's the biggest list of projects I've ever seen. Should have something that sparks your interest :)

JigPu