The censorship doesn't bother me so much since Pinky set up the Zone.

For the last ten days my FAD output has been somewhat lower than in previous weeks. For a while I have been doubting whether the technique of random screening is the most efficient, and whether the large drug companies seeming lack of interest is well, a genuine lack of interest. Is it not possible, if not probable, that knowing the targets structure, they have software that can generate chemical structures, intelligently, that will bind to the target.

Also, in many of the biomolecular DC projects, there is a seemingly  overabundance of contributing volunteers, thus targets are being excelled, and new data, perhaps,  too hastily prepared. I have looked at some of the smaller DC projects, where a single volunteer can make a significant contribution, and have settled for Stephen Brooks "Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design" project, which is proving stable under winXP, alas, there does not appear to be a version for Linux, so I still need to seek a suitable project when playing under Linux.

I've not personally seen, nor even heard of an instance of censorship at the WCG forum.  Compared to ud, they are a model of restraint.

Reading about linux in these forums, in literature and other forums on the 'net, it appears to me that being a guinea pig is a major part of the continually evolving linux experience.  I would think you would welcome such an opportunity.

i don't mind playing guinea pig for usability of things, but when it comes to something like a dc project, i like the set it and forget it [email protected] has a stable client for that.

Guess you'll be getting a new member in [email protected] soon fing! Have you tried running it alongside WCG yet?

Yup...   works just as well as FaD and WCG...   runt the text agent tho. CPU time shareing stays real close to 50/50.

Feel the same here John.

Anyway for me, I started [email protected] very early on and grid.org the day it went live and I never regretted doing either. Well…

i think the censorship was in regards to language and such...some tend to think they go overboard on what should and shouldn't be editted.

wow, FAD has crunched up all there is to crunch!  Hope the dataa helps folks out!!!!!

Glad we have this forum here too!!!!  Will help keep everyone connected!

Me?  I'm [email protected], and running [email protected], I kinda like where BOINC seems to be heading, works good for [email protected] and all BOINC forums are lacking though............

looks like the awesomely kewl BeOS team forum, and here at the great DCZone is where I'll be hanging out.


Keep them PCs running somewhere!!!!!!

   WOW!  Any body check out the specs for [email protected]?    



Windows XP  500MHz or higher CPU  200MBDisk space  512MBram

Got the same listed for all OS except Mac

Yep I did and that was as far as I got.

I Wonder if thats actual minimum, or what they are reccomending.

Either way that pretty well restricts their membership to people with Cray type CPUs  

I'm thinking about loading them up, and seeing if the software enforces the limit.
512mb shared on the notebook. I'll max the video share and see if it still works.

I thought it had promise as well.  My computers meet the requirements but I'm sure others on the team don't.  No point in it if all my teamies couldn't run it.  

I'm just reading the faq's there.  It really does use that much memory.  Even at 512 some folks get horrid system slowdown with the client running or big swap file usage.
Too rich for me I'm afraid.  

Wow that sucks.  

Hmmm.. I might just stick with folding then. Notebook seems happy with it.

I am running Rosetta thro BOINC with only 512 RAM....it zips through with no probs.

If my team decides to go that way, I'll give it a try.  My primary machine only has 384MB though.  Frankenstein has 512 but it's tempremental about graphics and changing programs while running.

Didn't seem to be much interest with it over there DA.

If you're really interested in it you need to say so.  You never know there might be others who are to.

SO it looks like Folding is getting the nod then?

I've never had a problem running thier agents either on Win or Linux. Tho to save on system resources I recommend running the text version.

I've started a poll at home so let's see what comes out.