Crunchers Check In!

[Oj0]

Is anyone else running World Community Grid? If so, how long have you been running it? Which projects are you most focused on? Which team are you crunching for? What hardware are you using?

 

[SCHUMI4EVER]

Is this something like F@H?

 

[Oj0]

Similar, but it’s far more than just protein folding. I moved from F@H to WCG in 2009 and have so far racked up just shy of 100 years of compute time.

 

[SCHUMI4EVER]

Hmm. I ran F@H for a few months a few years ago but then the community I was a part of died out suddenly and I just got over it because I would keep forgetting to close it before playing which really started to annoy me.
Guess I better stay away now with the older system as well, don't want to overstress anything. But I'll try to remember for when I get something new, maybe then it can join the party or I can set whatever is left of this system to the task.

 

[Reavs]

I was looking at installing something like this on my gaming pc. It's only used for about 4 hours per day and the rest of the time it just idles. My only concern is giving Eskom more money.

 

[Braducken]

I came here either expecting people eating some kind of crunchy substance like wheat-bix or some new fitness fetish thread to get @Flex involved :/

 

[Flex]

I came here either expecting people eating some kind of crunchy substance like wheat-bix or some new fitness fetish thread to get @Flex involved :/

Trying to get Flex involved here to see if it will cause ojo to lock his own thread? Sneaky...

 

[Oj0]

I was looking at installing something like this on my gaming pc. It's only used for about 4 hours per day and the rest of the time it just idles. My only concern is giving Eskom more money.

What you're REALLY doing is donating to a worthy cause. The Wiki page for World Community Grid lists some of the successes over time.

 

[Flex]

Very curious. Never knew of stuff like this. Knew of using PC resources to Mine for other companies, but nothing like this. Same kind of idea, just not getting payed as you volunteer? Will definitely look at this a bit more

 

[Reavs]

What you're REALLY doing is donating to a worthy cause. The Wiki page for World Community Grid lists some of the successes over time.

Yeah thats a better way of looking at it. I'll install tonight and see how it goes for the next couple of weeks.

 

[SCHUMI4EVER]

Very curious. Never knew of stuff like this. Knew of using PC resources to Mine for other companies, but nothing like this. Same kind of idea, just not getting payed as you volunteer? Will definitely look at this a bit more

No it's not mining. Your contribution is not monetary. Your contribution is that your computing power gets used to crunch on a small part of an extremely large problem.

The idea is instead of building a super computer for bajillions of bucks that the problem is split down into millions of manageable chunks that anyone can contribute some computing power toward. So instead of the super computer doing the job, it's millions of PC users around the world.


This is the one I used to do

Folding@home – Fighting disease with a world wide distributed super computer.

foldingathome.org

But it seems World Community Grid is so much more.

With F@H you would download a job, your system would work at it for a while (usually your GPU, and I mean like 99% utilisation or however much you are willing to surrender), then once it done it uploads the job back and fetches itself another to work on. Could be stopped at any time and resumed at will.

 

[Flex]

No it's not mining. Your contribution is not monetary. Your contribution is that your computing power gets used to crunch on a small part of an extremely large problem.

The idea is instead of building a super computer for bajillions of bucks that the problem is split down into millions of manageable chunks that anyone can contribute some computing power toward. So instead of the super computer doing the job, it's millions of PC users around the world.


This is the one I used to do

Folding@home – Fighting disease with a world wide distributed super computer.

foldingathome.org

But it seems World Community Grid is so much more.

With F@H you would download a job, your system would work at it for a while (usually your GPU, and I mean like 99% utilisation or however much you are willing to surrender), then once it done it uploads the job back and fetches itself another to work on. Could be stopped at any time and resumed at will.

Yes that is what I said. You do not get payed as you are a volunteer :?

 

[Braducken]

Yes that is what I said. You do not get payed as you are a volunteer :?

*paid

 

[SCHUMI4EVER]

Yes that is what I said. You do not get payed as you are a volunteer :?

No you don't. It's all volunteer based yes.

I just meant it's not like mining either because that would be giving them something monetary you could keep for yourself. These jobs don't mean anything to you.
And the motivation is different.

 

[Flex]

No you don't. It's all volunteer based yes.

I just meant it's not like mining either because that would be giving them something monetary you could keep for yourself. These jobs don't mean anything to you.
And the motivation is different.

Mining for things like Nicehash, all you do is they pay your so that they can use your processing power is it not?
So in the way the same, just no pay out.

 

[Flex]

*paid

That is what I sayed yes

 

[Reavs]

You can also search for Mannemarak with Seti@home

 

[SCHUMI4EVER]

Mining for things like Nicehash, all you do is they pay your so that they can use your processing power is it not?
So in the way the same, just no pay out.

From what I understood Nicehash was you using your processing power for yourself, they just point you in the right direction and gave you the software to do it. But then again I never looked very deeply into what bitcoin etc. actually is/was. It's all a made up bubble.


F@H and World Community Grid however are more like like people working on a really complicated maths question. BOMDAS remember (or BODMAS same difference)? So the question is broken down into into numerous individual brackets and each person gets to work on one with the resources they volunteer. Like maybe you download the "(13x2)" job or the "(5-1)" job, use your computing power to solve it, and upload the answer back. And slowly the equation fills in and cancer is cured or whatever.
That's the idea in super simple terms.
But yes, all volunteer.


I just think that's an important distinction to make.

 

[Flex]

From what I understood Nicehash was you using your processing power for yourself, they just point you in the right direction and gave you the software to do it. But then again I never looked very deeply into what bitcoin etc. actually is/was. It's all a made up bubble.


F@H and World Community Grid however are more like like people working on a really complicated maths question. BOMDAS remember (or BODMAS same difference)? So the question is broken down into into numerous individual brackets and each person gets to work on one with the resources they volunteer. Like maybe you download the "(13x2)" job or the "(5-1)" job, use your computing power to solve it, and upload the answer back. And slowly the equation fills in and cancer is cured or whatever.
That's the idea in super simple terms.
But yes, all volunteer.

Ah yeah, Nicehash mining worked almost exactly the same. using other PCs power to do calculations.

But yeah makes sense, I knew exactly what World Community Grid was from the very first post

 

[Braducken]

I like the one that finds aliens. Seems like a worthy cause.

 

[Oj0]

WCG can be set to only use a certain number of cores, you can give different priorities to different projects. You can also set it that as soon as your computer is in use it automatically suspends computing. You can also set limits to the amount of storage and RAM are used, schedule times, etc.

To give an idea of how much customization you have, here are some images:



Not one cruncher here though? That's disappointing. C'mon giys, let's get going.

 

[Reavs]

Installed it last night but I had some complaints this morning about the cooling running all night. So i'm thinking i might build a small cruncher and set it up somewhere out of sight.

 

[Oj0]

C'mon guys, let's get going.

Heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race!

 

[FJRLK]

Any one still Crunching?