Cale Dunlap » boinc http://www.caledunlap.com Programmer and hobbyist game developer Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:13:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 BOINC is freakin cool http://www.caledunlap.com/2009/01/boinc-is-freakin-cool/ http://www.caledunlap.com/2009/01/boinc-is-freakin-cool/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:30:38 +0000 Cale http://caledunlap.com/blog/?p=182 Incase you don’t know what BOINC is, it is a grid computing client for tons of different OS’s. It runs projects like SETI@home, MilkyWay@home, and LHC@home.

Check it out here:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Projects I’m contributing my idle CPU cycles to are: LHC@home (whenever any work arrives), rosetta@home, SETI@home, and Docking@home.

I’m faily impressed with BOINC because you can run multiple projects through the same client. And even more, it won’t destroy your CPU. Yes, your CPU will run at 100% all the time, but BOINC runs low-priority so it won’t interfere with your computing experience when you need it.

Also, BOINC has a GPU client if you’re hell-bent on speed. It works for any CUDA enabled nVidia GPU’s.

I suggest you contribute. :)

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