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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=640130602-27022008>What distributed
computing projects do the readers here feel are the most Extropian or
Transhumanist worthy.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=640130602-27022008>I've currently got a
3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 and 1 core of an Intel 2.4 Ghz Q6600 crunching <A
href="mailto:Folding@Home"><FONT
color=#000000>Folding@Home</FONT></A>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=640130602-27022008>The other 3 cores of
the Q6600 are running BOINC <A href="mailto:Rosetta@Home"><FONT
color=#000000>Rosetta@Home</FONT></A>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=640130602-27022008>Both are protein
folding applications.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=640130602-27022008>I ran cancer
targets first at UD (United Devices) which finished in 2007 and Find-A-Drug
which finished in 2005.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=640130602-27022008>But no drugs to
my knowledge have yet emerged from the data from either project.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=640130602-27022008>I'm thinking of
buying a Playstation 3 to do <A href="mailto:Folding@Home"><FONT
color=#000000>Folding@Home</FONT></A> on also. I understand that the IBM
cell processor and</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=640130602-27022008>the software written
to do <A href="mailto:Folding@Home"><FONT color=#000000>Folding@Home</FONT></A>
on the Playstation with help from Sony runs crunches proteins
many</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=640130602-27022008>times faster than a
Quad Core PC.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=640130602-27022008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=640130602-27022008>The reason I only
run 1 core on each machine <A href="mailto:Folding@Home"><FONT
color=#000000>Folding@Home</FONT></A> is because I've not been able to get the
Intel multicore </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=640130602-27022008>version of the <A
href="mailto:Folding@Home"><FONT color=#000000>Folding@Home</FONT></A>
client stable on my Vista machine although the single core runs
fine.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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