Filed under: Computer, Reallife | Tags: computing, grid, grid computing, POEM@HOME, processing power
Well I didn’t some months ago. But i guess you all know SETI@HOME (the project searching for other intelligent life in space) it was the first more or less useful project of GRID computing. Well i have to admit I joined it too but i did not compute that much. In my opinion it is more or less useless but yeah, everybody has to decide on his own in which project he wants to participate.
I then stopped computing for GRID’s because i wanted to play games and did not want to always shut the computing program down and so on… So i stopped, now some years later i started it again and i am computing in some health projects like POEM which folds proteins, my pc in vienna runs nearly 24/7 and i got a RAC (Recent Average Credit) of about 1 500 points.
So but now i have to tell you about the hard facts of GRID Computing, you don’t get paid you don’t get anything (yeah well you get a certificate if you want one) but yeah you don’t really get something – or ? Well you help mankind to develop medicine against cancer,HIV or something else. So this is a really good way to spent your computing power you don’t use and if your not just playing games all the time you can also spent some processing power and it WILL help! So just click on the link below and join POEM or any other project you want to join!
