How does a Collage use Internet to utilize power of computers over the world?

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Not to recently, I herd that a collage uses the Internet and anyone can donate there computer processing power. Its like connecting millions of computers to make one SUPERCOMPUTER. Talk about injenious. I might want to help them out a little by donating some processing power when I don't use my computer. And the best thing is when you come back to the computer it automatically stops the connection so you can have all your processing power back. If you think about it, that has got to be one of the best Ideas for getting a super system. Does anyone know where to find more about this on a website. I do not know which collage this is. But over all that's amazing how the can do that.
 
I heard of that too, but it was like 2 years ago >>
I guess they use your computer when your not, since not everything uses the entire CPU's power, and they do it over the internet on multiple threads (heard about it on G4 when screensavers was the most amazing show in the world)
I think the college was somewhere out west (like Colorado)
 
Computer Forum has a team on F@H, its a protien strand folding simulator... basically your PC downloads sample protien strand makeup's and folds it. dont ask me what that is, but it performs calculations on it, and sends the results back to the college or university... its kind of like donating, but with your PC.... theres only so much a server farm in a university can do, so they make it public, and let the whole world do the calcs for them...

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Yup, sounds like F@H to me :P Not necessarily a "super computer", but it probably outputs as much data, for far less the cost.

Folding as we speak!!! My Pc hasn't been shut off for...a few weeks now I believe. And it's a laptop lol.
 
also there are projects like seti and boinc still around, b stands for berkley. also at uni there are always computing depts. which run parallel during the night doing stuff, and they are linked with projects around the globe.
 
yea it doesnt just stop processing when u come back. it sets the folding@home program at the lowest priority, which allows you to use all the processing power you want and whatever is left goes toward the folding program. i guess it'll help cure diseases. i used to do it, but lately my power supply hasnt been gay so i gotta shut my computer off when im not using it... UGHH.

i also tried to get it to utilize both cores, unsuccessfully.
btw the method that folding @ home is called a cluster. some places do it because its the most cost effective way of processing mass amount of information. MUCH more effective than dual core normally, though it can be hard to get people to participate... and its not ideal for things like gaming and such.
 
Its parallel computing using non dedicated computers. You can do the same and more effectly with a deticated computer node cluster
 
I just recently came back from some Leopard Server training and I was chatting with one of the engineers from Apple, and they mentioned a very cool story to me. There was a poor school district in KY, and they purchased a lot of Apple computers for education, and now they are splitting the costs with the University of Kentucky. They are using XGRID, which is a distributed computing application. When the kids from the elementary school go home at night, the University takes over their computers remotely via XGRID and uses them to distribute jobs and processes data with their computers. I thought that was pretty cool.
 
is this another name for hijacking a computer? Personaly I don't want any other computer connecting to mine over the internet.
 
tlarkin said:
I just recently came back from some Leopard Server training and I was chatting with one of the engineers from Apple, and they mentioned a very cool story to me. There was a poor school district in KY, and they purchased a lot of Apple computers for education, and now they are splitting the costs with the University of Kentucky. They are using XGRID, which is a distributed computing application. When the kids from the elementary school go home at night, the University takes over their computers remotely via XGRID and uses them to distribute jobs and processes data with their computers. I thought that was pretty cool.
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You should know better then to bump old threads such as these. Even though it was similar, you should have still created a new thread.
 
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