Distributed Computing, what projects do you belong to?

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The discussion revolves around the topic of distributed computing, with participants sharing their experiences and projects. One user mentions running World Community Grid and the Clean Energy Project, while another humorously references a project called "Porno for Cyrus," which involves downloading adult content to a private server. The conversation shifts to the ethical implications of using computing power for malicious purposes, with a user joking about using infected computers for DDoS attacks. Another participant highlights the use of university resources for physics simulations via the CONDOR system, supporting academic research. The discussion concludes with a suggestion to focus on more beneficial projects, such as disease research or climate modeling, rather than adult content, and mentions the user's recent involvement with Folding@home on their PS3 and home PC.
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Does anyone else here do distributed computing? I have my PCs running World Community Grid and work on the Clean Energy Project. Does anyone else participate?
 
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I download a massive amount of pornograph to a private home server. Its the "Porno for Cyrus" project.
 
Cyrus said:
I download a massive amount of pornograph to a private home server. Its the "Porno for Cyrus" project.

Nice project, I support it as long it is shared.. hehe
 
Cyclovenom said:
Nice project, I support it as long it is shared.. hehe

Find your own porn...
 
Topher925 said:
Does anyone else here do distributed computing? I have my PCs running World Community Grid and work on the Clean Energy Project. Does anyone else participate?

Not those exact projects, but a similar one. I use pornographic web sites to lure people into downloading trojans which zombify their computer. I use these zombies to launch DDoS attacks and ransom corporations. Distributed computing at it's finest!

Haha, well, just kidding. Something about the idea of my computer working 100% of the time freaks me out. It needs rest!
 
At my university we use CONDOR to distribute physics simulations across the entire university network, including e.g. administrative machines with multi-Ghz processors that are being used for word processing!

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/

Therefore I support monte carlo simulations in lattice gauge theory, simulations of self-organized criticality in neural networks, etc, whichever grad student's thesis work is at the front of the job queue at the moment!
 
junglebeast said:
I use pornographic web sites to lure people into downloading trojans which zombify their computer. I use these zombies to launch DDoS attacks and ransom corporations. Distributed computing at it's finest!

Someone should do the same thing except instead of launching DDoS attacks they should install world community grid software to cure diseases and things.
 
Porn is all well and good but I was referring more to projects that are used for other things such as predicting global warming or computing models to find why cancer occurs. I guess if you want to work on rendering your "videos" that's good too.
 
I just recently started folding at home, after i found out how to do it on my PS3. Now I have the CPU and GPU versions running on my home PC when I'm using the PC for "lesser" tasks (internet, email, work :smile:)
 
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