Distributed Computing

[llbbl]

The most popular one is SETI@Home, the search for extraterrestial life using radio telescopes and you. I am running Folding@Home right now, its cool!

I found on my quick search for this thread that there are alot of distributed projects going these days. You can choose from projects in Science, Life Science, Crytography, Internet, Finanical, Mathematics, Art, Puzzles and Others! I want to know what projects you guys find interesting. What have you used in the past and what are you using currently?

I found a good list of them on this site.

http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/distrib-projects.html

If you are looking for a better graphic designed site than you can follow this link instead. Although I found the first site to be organized better.

http://www.distributedprojects.com/

[IronSerif]

I'm running Folding@home right now.

:D

[llbbl]

Hey that makes two of us! Too bad DT is not large enough that we can start our own team. It's prolly a little late after the fact to be able to compete with the others anyways.

I joined teamicrontic cause they were on the list and they are apart of Bizzbum. Their number is team number is 93.

With the new Google toolbar I think you can contribute to this project. They are projected to win if you look at the graph. This is prolly because they will have so many users.

[IronSerif]

Yeah that would rock of DT had a team :)

I joined Pimprigs team since my days are mostly taken up by Pimprig and Designtechnica(and DT doesn't have a folding team :P)

I didn't realize there were other projects out there other than SETI and FOLDING...thats awsome :D

[Ioman]

So some one start it up! Disco or Seriff, you guys wanna take charge on this? You two can be in charge of promoting it.

[IronSerif]

Ugh...my stuff goes towards Team Pimprigs score though :(

I'm sorry :(:(

[llbbl]

Ya I don't think there are enough people on this site to allow for us to compete in the rankings. Icrontic has close to 700 people. I don't think realisticlly we would be able to get anywhere that number. Look at the size of their forums and you will understand the difference in size.

Now we might be able to snaggle their team into getting them to rename it to teambizzbum or something, since they are apart of the network. I'm not sure how much authority Ioman has over the sites on his network. If we did get it renamed than anyone from the network of sites could add their CPU cycles without feeling left out because they don't visit Icrontic everyday.

[Ioman]

Originally posted by vindisco
Ya I don't think there are enough people on this site to allow for us to compete in the rankings. Icrontic has close to 700 people. I don't think realisticlly we would be able to get anywhere that number. Look at the size of their forums and you will understand the difference in size.

Now we might be able to snaggle their team into getting them to rename it to teambizzbum or something, since they are apart of the network. I'm not sure how much authority Ioman has over the sites on his network. If we did get it renamed than anyone from the network of sites could add their CPU cycles without feeling left out because they don't visit Icrontic everyday.

So what can we do tto get more people in the forums? Our actually site gets way more traffic then both Icrontic and Pimprigs combines, but our forums seem dead....

[llbbl]

Have everyone tag our forums on their other sites that they visit. Something similar to your Bizzbum tag would work. Not sure what else.

[llbbl]

Maybe expand the forum topics so people feel more inclined to post? I like it the way it is, but other people might think that the topics are too general in nature. We could also add topics, but I am not sure if we can add sub topics. I can't really say for sure if these changes are going to get more people to post. They are just suggestions.

Do you know how the refferal system works?

What about changing the little V logo to something that is more centered around the site. A little DT would be cool. I could make one np.

We could always update our vBulletin software to 2.2.8. Speaking of which, I am assuming that you pay the $85 dollars a year to liscence the software. That pricing scheme is a bit much, but I suppose for good forum software its not too bad.

http://www.vbulletin.com/order/

[IronSerif]

I've posted links to our forums here many a times in pbreview.com (paintball site)..

Specially dealing with that NOMAD Jukebox Zen thread and a few xBox threads :)

Anyways, just like all the rest of the members, I'm all about promoting DT :D

[Ioman]

Ok you guys, I am officially promoting you two to public relations personell at Designtechnica.com. Let's get those people in here!

I will send you T-shirts when we get them and e-mail addresses as well. So e-mail me with your full name, desiered e-mail password and I will set things up. We need to promote Designtechnica, especially the forums!

[IronSerif]

hehe...I think that was a draft lol :D

I'm all for it man...go DT!!!

[Ioman]

My e-mail is ianbell@designtechnica.com. Please send me the info I asked for in the previous post.

[senoryoshio]

Originally posted by Ioman

but our forums seem dead....

I'm here...and I'm game for some dist. computing...and i can tag DT at some other forums...I'm generally only in the [H]ardforum and occasionally bamf

[Ioman]

Originally posted by senoryoshio


I'm here...and I'm game for some dist. computing...and i can tag DT at some other forums...I'm generally only in the [H]ardforum and occasionally bamf

Any little help would be great!

[IronSerif]

Definately senoryoshio! The DT community appreciates every lil bit of help :D Thanks man!

[senoryoshio]

Originally posted by IronSerif
Definately senoryoshio! The DT community appreciates every lil bit of help :D Thanks man!

yeah, sweet...I've got no qualms about telling people about this place. I mean you guys are pretty inviting to having new people get in here and talkin' so I'm down with that....some boards just have a kind of attitude that I just can't deal with...I think DT suits me fine....oh well, off to bed

[llbbl]

Another recruit. Excellent!

Thanks for your help in an advance :)

[llbbl]

I figured out how the refferal system works. It was right in the FAQ the whole time. I haven't tried it out yet.

I am not sure where I would get my unique link. Maybe all you need is your member id or something. Somebody try it out to make sure it works. Create a dummy account.

Of course if we do implement a prize system than we can't have any cheating, increasing your refferrals through dummy accounts would be considered bad in that case!




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