The OcUK distributed computing team needs YOU!

[TheTross]

Thanks Ross1234, much appreciated

Yaaaaarrrrggghhh!!!!!

Oh. They're onto us

Would this work on a PS3?

Unfortunately I don't think so, as I'm pretty sure a PS3 client hasn't been released for Rosetta@home

 

[jackthezipper]

Done

 

[banja]

I don't get the whole pirates thing either. Can someone explain?

 

[Ben M]

I don't get the whole pirates thing either. Can someone explain?

it's a team competition, and there's another team called the pirate something which is trying to get above ocuk in the ranking table.

 

[TheTross]

I don't get the whole pirates thing either. Can someone explain?

A team called The Pirate Fleet tried to overtake our humble team a while back.

Er, that's it

EDIT: Beaten

 

[Happy]

Ok you have a AMD 6000X2 burning up until Sunday evening

 

[Slashiem]

Done, running now.
Also have a friend running now.

 

[TheTross]

Thankyou to both (well, all three) of you

That makes 13 new users that've joined our team today!

 

[Happy]

So quite the task doubling our 24 hour average

 

[TheOtherOption]

Joined up - well I will do tomorrow, tis installed but am off to bed now!

 

[CaseyChaos]

Joined, using Q6600

 

[Kaed]

Have grabbed the installer, will sort it later as i'm off to bed now.






Wonder if they all use Avast! as their AV? - sorry

 

[Goodspeed(TPF)]

Wonder if they all use Avast! as their AV? - sorry

That's actually funny.

 

[verbal]

For anyone who is confused, this is about using your PC for scientific research. For each bit of research your PC does (by doing calculations in the background) you get points. People doing this research join teams, OcUK has a team. So as well as getting points for yourself the team gets points too.

Currently another team called The Pirate Fleet are close to passing us on the points table. In the past they have passed us and there has been some good humoured rivalry going back and forth between our forum and theirs. Last time we ended up winning the battle but they are back for more and they are out-scoring us. We are starting to get towards the points per day total that we need to stay ahead of them.

The software to run the research calculations is called BOINC

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Within the BOINC software you can do many different kinds of science projects. The one we are focusing on at the moment is called Rosetta@Home which studies proteins in the human body. You can read about it here.

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

 

[Goodspeed(TPF)]

Help Team OcUK.

Well said Verbal. For more information just head over to our main page. You can read all about it there.

http://www.thepiratefleet.com/index.shtml

 

[Happy]

Haha at the help OCUK link

 

[Antelopethy]

When I get home this evening i'll add another Q6600 to the cause - don't think my Eee PC would do much good

 

[Poolybit]

I'll move a couple of machines over to the cause tonight! F@H can wait for a bit...

 

[SourChipmunk]

Wow, I haven't used BOINC since it was in Beta for SETI@Home, when it was destined to replace the command line cruncher. Installation is a breeze now compared to those days!

Joined up for Rosetta (ID: SourChipmunk). Added my Duo-core from work, will add my triple-core at home later. Had a little problem with it last night as BOINC wanted to install the 64-bit version which I'm told has some problems. Will read over the FAQ later and see what needs to be done.


Edit: this reminds me of how I found OcUK many years ago. In the early SETI@Home days OcUK was in first place and I wondered who they were. Been here ever since.

 

[Cosimo]

Haha at the help OCUK link

Tis a link for bad boys, I bet the Pirates use it.