Put your idle Ubuntu installs to work!

[Ted_Smith]

Ever heard of Grid Computing? In a nutshell, thousands of computers belonging to individuals and business from all over the globe processing massive computational tasks in their spare time while sat idle in aid of finding cures for diseases like cancer, looking for ET (SETI@home), climate change prediction, etc.

Over at The World Community Grid (www.worldcommunitygrid.org) you can put your Ubuntu PC to use 24\7 and\or while your not doing anything with it to help number crunch.

There's even an Ubuntu team already set up - so far we have 62 members - I am Tedsmith28. If you download the software (BOINC client), join the WCG, and then join the team. Let's see what kind of team we can build!

Lets go for it!

Ted

[Polygon]

i take it its this team? http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=69P91PFQP1

i tried folding at home and i hated it cause it takes soooo long to finish one WU. So i went back to WCG where i have like 100,000 points on it already ;)

maybe later today ill make a wiki page about it.

but one complaint i have about boinc is that its really hard to run it as a daemon... and if you just use the boinc manager (the gui client) there is no systray icon... so it takes up space on the open programs bar.

But if a later version included a systray icon (that worked in ubuntu) i would be very happy.

btw im Polygon89

[Ted_Smith]

Yes, that is the correct team. 'Ubuntu Linux' it's called.

[Polygon]

i made a wiki page that shows how to download, install and crunch for Team Ubuntu

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WorldCommunityGridTeamUbuntu

[[h2o]]

Hmm, I have a webserver which isn't really having a lot of load. Would it be possible to run it there? Would it take the load into consideration even on a graphics less computer?

[mips]

;1353046']Hmm, I have a webserver which isn't really having a lot of load. Would it be possible to run it there? Would it take the load into consideration even on a graphics less computer?

You don't need graphics and as far as I know it only uses your unused cpu cycles.

[[h2o]]

You don't need graphics and as far as I know it only uses your unused cpu cycles.

Sweet, then I might just install it and try it out :)