BS: Use your PC to predict Global Warming

Subject: BS: Use your PC to predict Global Warming
From: Bassic
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:34 PM

Its all here on this BBC web page. Seems like a good thing to do. Just 10,000 people taking part gives them more computing power whan the biggest Super Computer in the world aparently. I`m in. Download and set up was a 5 minute job thats all.

Subject: RE: BS: Use your PC to predict Global Warming
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:44 PM

I'd rather use my bandwidth for eMule

Or maybe SETI

Subject: RE: BS: Use your PC to predict Global Warming
From: Bassic
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:53 PM

Finding ET might turn out to be a better way to deal with Global Warming........save me a seat on the rescue ship CH ok? ;-0

Subject: RE: BS: Use your PC to predict Global Warming
From: DMcG
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:56 PM

I've been running this for about two weeks now, but it gives a new twist to the usual eco dilemmas: is it better to run the model or turn the PC off? ...

Subject: RE: BS: Use your PC to predict Global Warming
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 04:58 PM

"save me a seat on the rescue ship"

Rescue ship??? I hope they're coming here to take this place away from us!

Subject: RE: BS: Use your PC to predict Global Warming
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 07:33 PM

"They're coming to take it away, Ha! Ha!"

I'll get me hat...

Subject: RE: BS: Use your PC to predict Global Warming
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 08:07 PM

That's only one of several possibilities in the realm of "grid computing" which I think is a type of "distributed computing" (The difference isn't clear to me.)

I use my computer at work to run a program for The World Community Grid.

I see Google is promoting a feature called Google Compute which does something similar.

All these seem like worthy causes.

Subject: RE: BS: Use your PC to predict Global Warming
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 08:21 PM

Don't be fooled!

These introductory programs are just designed to lull you into a false sense of 'feelie-touchie-goodness' so that when the CIA wants to take over all your PCs, most of the hard work of getting people to trust and run these programs on their PCs has already been done!

What? Me paranoid> Yes! But am I paranoid enough?!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Use your PC to predict Global Warming
From: mack/misophist
Date: 14 Mar 06 - 10:55 PM

Over the yearsm I've tried 4 different distributed computing programs and, eventually, jad to remove each of them. They just wouldn't share the cpu properly, no matter what value I niced them to. If your machine starts to freeze up, try turning it off. My problem is likely to be too much multi-tasking, though.