Where now for sneakernetters ?

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With the last bastion of moderately easy to sneakernet human projects gone, where do I take my about 16 Ghz of spare cycles ?
Folding just doesn't cut it for easy sneakernetting.

Suggestions ?
 
Answering my own post:
What will happen to clients which have the gah preference selected?
We are setting up a server for FAH units without any deadlines. Only clients with gah selection will get assigned to this server. It will take the place of the gah server.
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That's even better!!
 
Sneakernetting is running a DC project without web access, moving the work to and from machines without net access to process the work.
 
Sneakernetting is running a DC project without web access, moving the work to and from machines without net access to process the work.
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Thanks. I've been reluctant to show my ignorance!

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That must take a lot of upkeep and time. Would you transfer work unit with a disk/cd or over a network?
 
Originally posted by MN Scout
That must take a lot of upkeep and time. Would you transfer work unit with a disk/cd or over a network?
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The point of having to sneaker net is that there ain't no freakin' network!
:)

I used to transfer over an LS-120, now I use thumb drives, and yes it is time consuming.
 
Wouldn't it be cheaper in time to just go buy an 8 or 16 port hub or switch? I know this is something you have probably already thought about. I just figure with the amount that you produce, sneakernetting would get very old. I know it did for me when I was into the older DC projects.
 
I have sneakernetted from Korea to Germany, with Genome at one time I was running 36 processors not connected to anything.
My home stuff runs networked, everything else requires carrying.
 
Find a Drug has limited sneakernetting abilities, you need to have the machine online to download a number of work units, then after they are all completed reconnect to upload.

If you are looking for a human health related project that does support cacheing offline you may want to have a look at Distributed Folding.

Distributed Folding (DF) uses a different methodology to perform protein folds and is seeking a different outcome to the FAH guys. It's other big plus for me is that everyone does the same protein at the same time and therefore no points advantages for some over others. Pretty good cacheing ability too as well as extensive *nix, *BSD and other platform support.

I believe [H] even has a small DF team.
 
You need Distributed Folding

www.distributedfolding.org

Not an official [H] project though :(

OOps - what Deranged said ! :rolleyes:
My excuse is that I'm on my 3rd pint of scrumpy this hour and I've boosted this 8% alcohol drink with about 1/4 pint of whisky to give it some more bite :D
 
Hey guys, haven't posted in here for a looooooong time, but I thought I would weigh in on this. The nonet option is still working despite the end of the Genome project. They are just handing out Tinker units now. You get ten at a time in a cached directory. My 3400mhz P4 will crunch through them in a little less than a week.

I sneakernet my work box because it sets behind a Websense internet filter that blocks all the major DC project servers.

It is easy as cake to do.
 
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