Comments on: Docking@Home: Do Good While Multitasking

By: josie

josie — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:10:38 +0000

The World Community Grid sounds interesting–thank you for letting us know about it with your post! The blog does mention the Berkeley Infrastructure for Network Computing in the second paragraph: “Volunteers download software called Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), a collaboration between the University of Delaware, the Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, Berkeley.” I added a hyperlink, so it now appears in red, and people can link to the BOINC site you provided for more information.

By: Richard Mitnick

Richard Mitnick — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:02:39 +0000

So, we have another article covering a project without mentioning BOINC, or WCG. These oversites are less than helpful in getting the word out.

There are many really worthwhile projects running BOINC software, including World Community Grid.

By: Jon B

Jon B — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:53:13 +0000

I would suggest to anyone looking to get involved with Docking@home to do so through GridRepublic.org. GridRepublic is a 501(c)(3) non-profit working in collaboration with BOINC to create an easier way to discover, join, and manage your interaction with projects using BOINC.

GridRepublic makes it easy to join with a single login and simple point and clicks to join and change everything.

You also can find projects which support Macs here.

GridRepublic URL: http://www.gridrepublic.org

By: DoubleTop

DoubleTop — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:09:39 +0000

Dont’ forget that once you are doing good for science that you can also join in the communities that have been taking part in Distributed Computing for many years. Team Phoenix Rising has been a top team in many projects and is a great community of people working towards a common aim of using the computer power at members disposal to a “greater good”. Come and take a look at http://forums.teamphoenixrising.net/forumdisplay.php?f=66

DoubleTop.