News to know

[arcturus]

Stickied, please only post important boinc news, no discussion.  Thanks.  -MrApples

LHC - out of work
Predictor - down until 9/27, maybe later

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Just attached to Rosetta in light of the status
of the other projects.  Rosetta needs 512mb
of RAM to work properly.

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Use this thread for any info to relay on to the
team.

[arcturus]

Vijay Pande, lead scientist at Folding @ Home, is quoted here ...

How's Rosetta different than Folding?

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Other links:

Rosetta May Hold Key to Predicting Protein Folding
Rosetta Explained

[arcturus]

Rosetta news.

From analyzing the results of the searches all of you have done over the past week we have made a real breakthrough!

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=340

Great to see.

[arcturus]

Climateprediction news:

If you're running climateprediction ... or thinking of running
it on Linux, DON'T.  The linux client is borked.

http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=3846

The developers repeatedly denied there were problems even after lots of
reports came in.  'Poor hardware' was always the scapegoat.

Funny how they ignored the common denominator ... Linux.

[arcturus]

'Your dusty old PC may hold the cure for cancer'

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/06/05/research.at.home.ap/index.html

Great CNN story on Rosetta @ home

[arcturus]

Local article in today's morning paper on some guy running World Computing Grid (WCG), another Boinc project.  The article is unclear whether he's on a team but a quick search for 'IBM Tucson' in boincstats pulled up a relatively small team, producing just 1/10th of our daily production & 1/4 over all team points.

http://www.boincstats.com/stats/boinc_team_graph.php?pr=bo&id=15639

With WIYB ranked at 320 in the world I think it's safe to say we're the top of the food chain in Tucson ... if not the state.

http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/167863.php

Nice publicity.

Edit:

Looks like this guy is employed by United Way Tucson.  They plug WCG here:

http://www.unitedwaytucson.org/pages/donatecomputertime.php