xGrid and Folding@home

[gigglebyte]

howdy all...I don't know how many of you Fold and even worse...how many know/work in OSX but here is the question...with the release of 10.4 xGrid is built into the OS and I was wondering of anybody has though of what it would take to get xGrid to work with Folding@home...I am asking because I have 25+ G4 Dual 1.25s that are just begging to do something and I think I could talk my boss into this as an "experiment with xGrid"

 

[ameoba]

Seems kind of redundant, since F@H is already set up to be massively distributed & run in idle time. About the only thing working in xgrid will buy you would be not having to install it on every machine.

 

[gigglebyte]

and that is what I am looking for...I figure I have access to about 62 GHz just sitting around for a good 16 hours a day and this would be the easiest way to get them running and being productive...and while F@H is distributed computing each computer is only working on one (or two depending on CPU type and QTY) protein at a time and if I could get this rolling it would crank them even faster



edit: besides wouldn't it be [H]ard to distribute a distributed computing just to see if it could be done?

 

[unhappy_mage]

http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~cparnot/xgrid-stanford/
Even if you can't get FAH going, here's another Stanford guy doing biology stuff. I'm sure he'd appreciate the help.

http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/Xgrid_Admin_v10.4.pdf
I'm reading through this, it looks helpful but I don't have a Mac to confirm this

 

[KodiakStar]

Just wondering if anyone has had a chance to look into this yet?

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