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We should make sure that whatever project we add to our team is compatible with all of the older farm equipment, I know I was planning on adding to the UD stuff as soon as the proposed Linux client came out. Some of my farm boxen are getting a little slow for the new protiens and switching them to UD as soon as the Linux client came out was where they were going to run.
So whatever project we add should be as Multi-OS friendly as possible.
Just my 7.6 cents worth, ( inflation don't you know
I say throw all the UD power into folding@home and make the roos cry at the number of WUs we complete.
not even worth turning them on for that slow an output, my XT1900XTX outproduces 20 boxen like that. I can't even think about a C2D rig now. Maybe if I fleabay all the stuff from the UD boxen I could afford a d805 or something similarly low end smp. Lets try to find a project that can make use of all the crappers we all seem to own.
Sounds like a good place to start.I agree, it's a good plan. I'm ready to do some footwork but we need to share what projects to check since it's a bit too much to check everything alone. This will obviously include some work reading their own forums and gathering the software offerings for each project.
Here is a small list of things we would like to have :
-Multi-platform client (Linux, Windows and others.).
-Can be used on old hardware with reasonable turnaround for WU (less than 2-3 days per WU).
-Provide research for anything related to health (Aids, Cancer, diseases).
-Offer a interesting points system and being able to update stats on [H]Folding.
-The project need to be around for at least 1 year since it would suck to hop on a new project just to get face to closed doors in little time and is backed by a well known organization or university.
What do you think of this ?
However, with the WCG, I found a HardOCP team in there : http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=BP5XNJBR9N1 so we should look from there since I don't know the captain's name... Also, on the forum, there is a interesting topic : http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=12899
Well, if you rule out profit and WCG as possibily profitable, that leaves only Compute For Cancer. The FightAids@Home is just WCG "advertised" differently. It uses thier client just project restricted.
Compute for Cancer doesn't meet the stats requirement, unless someone else can find them.
On the plus side, WCG using the BOINC client it does seem possible to set up "headless" PXE boot farms. Something I at least am very interested in doing since I have so many older PC's to set up.
Oh ya, Distributed Folding says "The project is currently out of operation" - that doesn't sound good.
So....I'm at a loss.
As much as I would love to see Team 33 for F@H get a huge infusion of people and dominate even more than we already do, another project needs to be selected. This has one caveat. It must be worthy of the [H]orde and that's not an easy thing to be.
I'm not going to get into what project should be done or why; at least not right now I won't.
I feel it needs to be said that many people ran UD for a reason. That reason was Stanford and problems that were "caused" by them. I'm not going to get into the history and it does not need to be repeated. DO NOT ASK. You will not receive an answer.
This just means we need another project. There should be no reason to lose UD folders because we refuse to support another project that's worthy of our efforts. Some, maybe many, UD folders could come over to F@H. However, not all will and we don't want anyone to grudgingly come over. They have their reasons for wanting to stay away and they should not be "forced" to join.
As far as I'm concerned, this poll should be closed. If anything, there should only be discussion about finding another worthy project.
Yes, our F@H team (of which I have been an exclusive member of for several years) is strong. It's probably stronger than it "needs" to be. Outside of default team and default PS3'ers, there's not one team that can come anywhere near us right now. I understand things can change but we can always recruit more people, build more boxen, upgrade more boxen and borg more boxen. It's not really a contest if there's no real competition.
As for history, some of the problems have been fixed but not all of them by any means. A lot of people have a bad taste in their mouths caused by Stanford. Even if these people joined up or joined back up to F@H, do you think they would really give it the time and attention that they could if they do so grudgingly? Not likely. It's a lot better for everyone involved to have another project sanctioned by the [H]orde that they would be happy to join.
I stand by my reasons for finding a second project. Diversity is often a good thing. I would rather see [H]orde members sticking with us on another project than going to another project by themselves or with another team. This is about the [H]orde, not a single project.