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Genome @ Home and Muon Stuff
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Saturday, 10-May-2003 18:02:28 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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From Grimwolge: Congratulations to everyone who ran G@H Classic. Even with the handful of "classic genomers" it looks as though the project will end with the OCAU Team on almost 750,000 points. Quite an achievement and lots of excellent competition in its day. Stats here. Thanks must go to all the team members who ran the console and did their part for the G@H Project, most of whom will have moved onto other distributed processing projects.
Faced with the problem of having to decide on a new distributed project, stuck on dialup for quite some time and having given literally 2 years of my time to Genoming and a few additional months to SETI, my choice was to change to the Muon project. Without going to deeply into Muon here, it should be worth your time having a look here or alternatively a rundown on the purpose and goals of muon, check here on ZeonX's site. Muon will cache results, workunit uploads are very minimal - and there is a background mode (invisible to the average user), command line mode (for those who like the classic feel) and GUI mode (great for seeing exactly what its all about). This is what has attracted my attention mainly.
ZeonX has created a page dedicated entirely to Muon which can be found here. It is frequently updated. Detailed [OCAU] statistics can be found here and here. It would be great to see a few more boxes behind this particular project. There already seems to be some competition hotting up there.
If you are looking for something to do with your spare CPU cycles, consider also OCAU's SETI@Home (looking for alien life), RC5-72 (breaking a code) or Folding@Home (researching cures for diseases) teams. It's winter, perfect conditions for making your PC do some work for a change!
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