Distributed Computing - Cease to be Idle
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Distributed Computing - Cease to be Idle
I read in some blog that the reported number of
clerks office computers are something like 12,000.
From what I've seen in most clerks offices is that
computers are left on during church, a lot of that
time running a screensaver. Letting their really
fast processors idle away doing nothing productive.
To which I tell the computers - Cease to be idle !
There are quite a number of distributed computing
projects that have their own screensavers that
actually work on solving a portion of a really big
puzzle. Whether it is breaking encryption for prize
money, trying to find the right medicine to solve
various diseases, or even searching for extra-terrastrial
life.
With 12,000 computers, the church has an opportunity
to contribute to one of these projects in an unique way.
Most of these places release their code, so the results
of these industrious screensavers could be modified so
that it uses MLS to send/recieve.
Just imagine this news story:
"Today, scientists were able to find a cure for the SARS virus thanks
to the help of a Mormon super-computer of sorts..."
Just another crazy idea from
- Atticus Ewig
clerks office computers are something like 12,000.
From what I've seen in most clerks offices is that
computers are left on during church, a lot of that
time running a screensaver. Letting their really
fast processors idle away doing nothing productive.
To which I tell the computers - Cease to be idle !
There are quite a number of distributed computing
projects that have their own screensavers that
actually work on solving a portion of a really big
puzzle. Whether it is breaking encryption for prize
money, trying to find the right medicine to solve
various diseases, or even searching for extra-terrastrial
life.
With 12,000 computers, the church has an opportunity
to contribute to one of these projects in an unique way.
Most of these places release their code, so the results
of these industrious screensavers could be modified so
that it uses MLS to send/recieve.
Just imagine this news story:
"Today, scientists were able to find a cure for the SARS virus thanks
to the help of a Mormon super-computer of sorts..."
Just another crazy idea from
- Atticus Ewig
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For projects external of the church, I highly recommend enrolling at http://www.grid.org. It works on medial problems trying to identify drugs that will bind to specific proteins (or something like that - medicine isn't my thing.) I started off on dealing with a cure for Anthrax, then Smallpox and now working on cancer.
The UD program has never given me a single bit of trouble. It salvages all the otherwise idle time of my CPU and yet has never slowed me down. I've got a number of CPU years on their projects and quite content to continue on.
Enjoy!
The UD program has never given me a single bit of trouble. It salvages all the otherwise idle time of my CPU and yet has never slowed me down. I've got a number of CPU years on their projects and quite content to continue on.
Enjoy!
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Grid computing is exciting technology the church could easily use. Several years ago, BYU Magazine had a great article on their supercomputer used for medical research, graphic design, animation, etc. Why couldn't BYU team up with the Church office building with its hundreds of computers and members through the world and create a grid computer system that would really have some computational power. I would be willing to comtribute some computer cycle time to research projects associated with the church and its institutions. The results would be fantastic
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