Ever wanted to do something good for the world, but would rather sit on your computer chair all day than go out and volunteer or donate money to charities (who end up taking large percentages anyways)? Well, now you can: With the BOINC Manager and the World Community Grid, you can download and install the program, and (at a low priority) it will utilize unused CPU cycles to perform processing and calculations that assist scientists in doing their work to cure diseases such as muscular dystrophy, cancer, and AIDS.
Large distributed network grids such as these are more effective and less costly than using large super computers, by spreading out the processing to be done among thousands, or millions, of computers.
I've been using it so far, and it's pretty good. Since it runs at a low priority, it doesn't hamper any of my activities (though if I needed to, I could suspend processing, or change max CPU usage while the computer is in use or idle).
I'd like to be a totalitarian ruler a la Big Brother/Stalin/Palpatine/Lotso, but if i had to save the world...
Yes, that seems to be a pretty good idea. I guess i'll support this.
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"4shitkids changes the voice of anime, censored anime, and created ghorrible shows. 4KIDS UCKS.
- 13 year old me
Seems like a good idea. I'm not an outspoken human rights activist, however I would honestly like to see an end of these diseases that plague our world. Cancer being one of them.
If you want to support gaming for a good cause, PM me to donate to Sandbox Gaming's 9th bi-annual 80-hour marathon! More information about the event here.
uh, i'm too lazy to remove any of the above but the marathon's over. it went pretty well
This does seem like a good thing, it would be nice to help fight horrible things like cancer, AIDs, and parcinsons.
Yay I finally got a layout! I feel like I am officially a member now, so this being the case, I don't know to much about chocolate hacks, but feel free to let me beta test any vanilla hacks.
Hate to seem negative, but I installed the BOINC download manager on our family computer about a year ago, and it fried it. I can't bring myself to trust it on my own computer.
I'm a little skeptical--not about the motive, but about the product. I might try it on this computer, though, since it's old and is only used for essays and gaming.
I might try this.
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Since I explained the whole thing to Leod in greater detail than I did here, I thought it might do good to post the logs here: http://pastebin.com/PPZXw2bz
And with that, the team ought to have it's 13th member. 15 days of processing has just been reached, I look forward to more.
I took a closer look at the statistics, and noticed that I have performed a disproportional 12 days of processing out of the total 16 days that SMWC has. Looking further, I see that only 5 members have been counted as having done processing. So this either means that computation is either turned off, either due to a bug, manual selection, not running at start-up, or a laptop on batteries, or the statistics have been failed to be reported, due to long term internet disconnection starting as soon as the client was installed, which I doubt.
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