DSLRUsers.com

Calling all BOINC users and dslrusers.com members working on other distributed computing projects.

I've been a Seti@home project member since Jun 1999 and a BOINC project member since it's inception.

I've created a team called dslrusers.com for all interested forum members to join (if they wish) and support both the BOINC vision and the forum at the same time.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_dis ... mid=130548

BOINC and it's participating projects use your spare computer resources to compute problems. Millions of computers worldwide share their computers with varied projects to create massive supercomputers. It's all in a good cause. It's a way to allow useful scientific projects to use your unused computer time to solve scientific, mathematical or medical problems by using your unused computer CPU while you are doing nothing on the computer. Some of the projects even show a screensaver as the work progresses.

Please join and share your computer with dslrusers.com and the BOINC project.

If you are not sure what BOINC or Seti@home is then maybe you'd be interested in reading more.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_help_desk.php

BOINC is currently being used by projects that are researching whether aliens exist, some mathematical problems and useful things such as finding a cure for HIV, cancer and genetic diseases and also climate prediction.

To start, join BOINC by downloading the app here
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

Then have a look at the projects that currently use BOINC to service their number crunching requirements.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php

You can even participate in more than one project.

Then once you have joined and started your participation, join up to team dslrusers.com

Easy yeah???

Yes, it is....

Current team dslrusers.com Members include;

Killakoala - (Team manager)
Seti@home - (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence)
Einstien@home - (Studying gravity waves)
Rosetta@home - (3D protein research)
Predictor@home (Project completed, but may be reopened soon)
Climatepredication.net - (Studying climatology)

GStark
Seti@Home - (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence)

Stetner
Seti@Home - (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence)

Flyer
Seti@Home - (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence)

Team dslrusers details and stats here;
http://www.boincstats.com/stats/boinc_t ... &id=147180

PM me to add your name here
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Forum members working on other projects
Folding@Home (Unravelling Proteins)
Obzelite
Macka & Rooboy
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(If you don't want your name in the list then PM me after joining the team)

Note: If you want to join a project that i havent already started a dslrusers.com team in, (anything other than those listed in my personal list) then please create the team name yourself. Then you will be the manager of that team. PM me and let me know though and i will update this list.

Seems like a great thing for people to be involved in, and there's certainly no shortage of projects, is there?

That's right Gary.

Thing is it costs nothing to do it and can offer so much.

It works when your computer is idle so won't impinge on your use.

Just to be a part of a project that finds a cure for cancer or finds evidence of life outside our own solar system or helps understand gravity waves is such a valuable opportunity and knowing you have done your part in it must make oneself feel great.

People donate money to these organisations, (myself included) but this way you can offer in a different way, by using your spare CPU cycles. I mean if you're not using them then why not donate them to a good cause??

Is this a porn thing?

Killakoala wrote: or finds evidence of life outside our own solar system

Isn't SETI looking for intelligent life outside our solar system? Clearly there's very little within it.

Matt. K wrote:Is this a porn thing?

It can be, if you're that way inclined......

GStark wrote:Isn't SETI looking for intelligent life outside our solar system? Clearly there's very little within it.

I can't argue with that. It all comes down to the scientific explanation of what is 'intelligence.' Clearly some members of our species would struggle to qualify.

Maybe we can use cpu cycles to help Nikon research a demand for full-frame sensors.

Lets join forces to seek the next largest prime number.

Prize is somewhere in the $100,000+ USD... to fulfill our gear lust.

http://www.eff.org/awards/coop.php

We dont get paid for finding any aliens outside the planet, lets take care of a number hidden on our planet first

Matt. K wrote:Is this a porn thing?

Matt, you are not the Outstanding Member of the Year for nothing!!

Does he mean 'Bonk' team?

despite the thrill of discovering aliens, trading consensual probing for a mini deathray and popping down to parliament house for an elimination of our leaders get together, my spare cycles are going to http://folding.stanford.edu/ in the hope that eternal youth will be discovered after a few genes are switched and as participant i'll get first dibs on living forever.

obzelite wrote:my spare cycles are going to http://folding.stanford.edu/ in the hope that eternal youth will be discovered after a few genes are switched and as participant i'll get first dibs on living forever.

This is where excess computing power travels to at our place as well. Good luck with the aliens though, let us know if you find anything.

Greg B wrote:

Matt. K wrote:Is this a porn thing?

Matt, you are not the Outstanding Member of the Year for nothing!!

Outstanding or upstanding member of the year

Never did understand the purpose of teams, but what the heck, I will throw in with you, I have a few seti credits....

Blimey Douglas, that's an impressive amount of credit you got there...

Thanks to Gstart, Stetner and Flyer for joining the team.

Killakoala wrote:Blimey Douglas, that's an impressive amount of credit you got there...

Yep, I have been a geek for a long time!

I'm mildly interested, too. I was on the SETI bandwagon a long time ago (before it got BOINCed).

These days, the cost-benefit analysis of the excercise seems a bit more complex, though. For example, the extra energy expenditure isn't merely a fiscal problem anymore, but has become a sustainability issue. In 100 years time we might say "There isn't a desease we coudn't cure with genetic engineering - too bad there's hardly any dry land left to live on. Let's start a distributed energy wasting project to solve the problem of lowering sea levels...!"

I'm only saying this because the amount of energy wasted by PCs (with or without BOINC) is staggering.

Cheers
Steffen.

There's always climateprediction.net

I think an enormous amount of energy wasted is by office workers leaving their monitors on overnight or over weekends. They chew heaps of electricity doing nothing. I make sure all our computers and monitors are turned off each night at my place of work.