Slashdot Mirror

I've looked into grid computing a few times and ran a few clients as well. It seems that Jiva does the same exact thing, but much cheaper. Then again there is also Parabon and united devices, though they tend to charge even more than Sun.

:Some very smart people have suggested this before, but this seems like the first real implementation.

One dont need to be smart to proclaim the benefits of using idle PC time for the distributed computing. Quite a few companies are already doing just that.

It's now purely the issue of effective marketing and sales, not the technology. And grabbing CPU cycles to compensate musicians is just another business plan, certainly neat in idea, but not exactly novel.

Maybe you should do a little research before spouting off about how there are no useful distributed computing projects out there.

AIDS:
FightAids@Home

Cancer:
United Devices
Find-a-Drug
Distributed Folding
Parabon Computation

Bioterrorism Antodotes:
Find-a-Drug
Drug Design Optimization Lab

Other Diseases:
Folding@Home
Genome@Home
Community TSC

Every other distributed computing project that's currently available for you to participate in:
Internet-based Distributed Computing Projects - Active Projects

Kirk
Internet-based Distributed Computing Projects

Oh, you mean RC5's not frivolous? There are people dying in the world due to our continued lack of scientific knowledge regarding various diseases and our own gene structures.

Try one of these instead, please...

Genome@Home: gene structure
Folding@Home: protein folding
United Devices: cancer and anthrax
Parabon Pioneer: cancer
Entropia's FightAIDS@Home: AIDS

Parabon is doing a variety of cancer-related research. Some of their clients have had good successes too, like this one and this one. They also have an SDK you can download to develop your own applications to run over the Net. You can register to get a Test Drive account.

Parabon is doing a variety of cancer-related research. Some of their clients have had good successes too, like this one and this one. They also have an SDK you can download to develop your own applications to run over the Net. You can register to get a Test Drive account.

Parabon is doing a variety of cancer-related research. Some of their clients have had good successes too, like this one and this one. They also have an SDK you can download to develop your own applications to run over the Net. You can register to get a Test Drive account.

Although I'm not 100% thrilled with their client, I think it's the same thing ("compute against cancer"). Parabon is one of those "pay for spare cycles" wanna-bes that currently award prizes, but don't pay cash.

I find it interesting that the engineers who designed the system referred to the Matrix technology as using still cameras. The technical (as opposed to artistic) breakthrough of those effects in The Matrix was that they used actual movie cameras, so action could continue during the rotation. The Gap ads (and others) preceding the Matrix used still cameras for that effect; that wasn't new.

An error I could overlook, but the fact that the creators of CBS's version themselves didn't know this basic fact tends to suggest they didn't bother to do their homework...

-spc

first off joe q user doesnt understand what a security and privacy risk is. if joe q is using windows the stability risk will not make that big of an impact. all of that aside it could be that joe q cannot do complex math but he understands that his computer can. he might also realize that helping to find cures for diseases may not directely impact him, but it's a good thing to do.

i dont know about the rest, but the _only_ one i went to: cure for cancer gives away money.

i didnt know seti at home paid money. screensaves are pretty worthless in my mind, especially now that power management can turn off the monitor. so if the computers in your office win money do you give it to your company?

use LaTeX? want an online reference manager that

> Given the reasonable success of these systems I wonder when people are going to start exploiting this sort of system comercially.

there are number of companies that are going to offer for pay project. you should check out following sites:

popular power: Research on influenza vaccination. has windows and gnu/linux clients. mac, solaris and *bsd clients about to be released soon. it has tim oreilly of o'reilly as board member.

parabon: Research on cancer treatment (chemotherapy). clients exist only for windows but they are going to release gnu/linux client soon. they are giving out 100$ on daily basis to random providers.

Dcypher/Processtree they have some kind of physics project. problem is that its easily to cheat on this project. they are also giving out 100$ to random users.


now to my conclusion. all of these projects are paying to little to warrant me donating my cpu time to them. many of them demands that you have 24/7 access to inet. this is something that is unnacaptable to large number of users in europe because we dont have flat rate, so i'll keep donating my cpu cycles to ogr project on dist.net

There is already quite a lot of competition in this field. ProcessTree is hardly at the head of the pack. Check out Parabon Computation for a company that is already doing real work (running multiple applications -- Gene sequencing, distributed rendering, Monte Carlo financial modelling), paying people (initially with a daily/monthly sweepstakes model), has several beta clients, and a downloadable SDK that, once registered, will allow individuals to launch jobs from their own desktops.

There is already quite a lot of competition in this field. ProcessTree is hardly at the head of the pack. Check out Parabon Computation for a company that is already doing real work (running multiple applications -- Gene sequencing, distributed rendering, Monte Carlo financial modelling), paying people (initially with a daily/monthly sweepstakes model), has several beta clients, and a downloadable SDK that, once registered, will allow individuals to launch jobs from their own desktops.

There is already quite a lot of competition in this field. ProcessTree is hardly at the head of the pack. Check out Parabon Computation for a company that is already doing real work (running multiple applications -- Gene sequencing, distributed rendering, Monte Carlo financial modelling), paying people (initially with a daily/monthly sweepstakes model), has several beta clients, and a downloadable SDK that, once registered, will allow individuals to launch jobs from their own desktops.

There is already quite a lot of competition in this field. ProcessTree is hardly at the head of the pack. Check out Parabon Computation for a company that is already doing real work (running multiple applications -- Gene sequencing, distributed rendering, Monte Carlo financial modelling), paying people (initially with a daily/monthly sweepstakes model), has several beta clients, and a downloadable SDK that, once registered, will allow individuals to launch jobs from their own desktops.

There is already quite a lot of competition in this field. ProcessTree is hardly at the head of the pack. Check out Parabon Computation for a company that is already doing real work (running multiple applications -- Gene sequencing, distributed rendering, Monte Carlo financial modelling), paying people (initially with a daily/monthly sweepstakes model), has several beta clients, and a downloadable SDK that, once registered, will allow individuals to launch jobs from their own desktops.

Well, Parabon Computation is doing cancer research, in addition to other bioinformatics applications such as gene sequencing, for instance.

Well, Parabon Computation is doing cancer research, in addition to other bioinformatics applications such as gene sequencing, for instance.

Well, Parabon Computation is doing cancer research, in addition to other bioinformatics applications such as gene sequencing, for instance.

Others are doing new projects: for instance, Parabon (disclaimer: my employer) is doing cancer research, 3d rendering, bioinformatics (e.g. gene sequencing), et cetera (and anything you code up and run: our SDK is available).

Others are doing new projects: for instance, Parabon (disclaimer: my employer) is doing cancer research, 3d rendering, bioinformatics (e.g. gene sequencing), et cetera (and anything you code up and run: our SDK is available).

Others are doing new projects: for instance, Parabon (disclaimer: my employer) is doing cancer research, 3d rendering, bioinformatics (e.g. gene sequencing), et cetera (and anything you code up and run: our SDK is available).

Others are doing new projects: for instance, Parabon (disclaimer: my employer) is doing cancer research, 3d rendering, bioinformatics (e.g. gene sequencing), et cetera (and anything you code up and run: our SDK is available).

Others are doing new projects: for instance, Parabon (disclaimer: my employer) is doing cancer research, 3d rendering, bioinformatics (e.g. gene sequencing), et cetera (and anything you code up and run: our SDK is available).

United Devices isn't planning to pay for compute (they have 'rewards' like frequent flyer miles) as far as I know. Nobody pays providers (people who run compute engines) directly yet; a few are planning to pay, and Parabon (disclaimer: my employer) is already running a sweepstakes, giving away $100/day + $1000/month to providers.

United Devices isn't planning to pay for compute (they have 'rewards' like frequent flyer miles) as far as I know. Nobody pays providers (people who run compute engines) directly yet; a few are planning to pay, and Parabon (disclaimer: my employer) is already running a sweepstakes, giving away $100/day + $1000/month to providers.

United Devices isn't planning to pay for compute (they have 'rewards' like frequent flyer miles) as far as I know. Nobody pays providers (people who run compute engines) directly yet; a few are planning to pay, and Parabon (disclaimer: my employer) is already running a sweepstakes, giving away $100/day + $1000/month to providers.

United Devices isn't planning to pay for compute (they have 'rewards' like frequent flyer miles) as far as I know. Nobody pays providers (people who run compute engines) directly yet; a few are planning to pay, and Parabon (disclaimer: my employer) is already running a sweepstakes, giving away $100/day + $1000/month to providers.

Certainly, those who are running our compute engine (with our benevolent projects) before then will be alerted when the money starts. :)

Certainly an Intranet solution will involve more hassle for the user, but we are also going to allow people to launch against our servers/provider base from their own desktops (in which case an extra dedicated server is not necessary).

You can read our new white papers (API and platform) at: http://www.parabon.com

I run Frontier(tm) from Parabon Computation (http://www.parabon.com). it uses distributed computing to perform cancer research. That's one of the best uses for p2p i've seen so far.

Well, we're going to pay people for the use of their computers, but we're also tackling problems with wider appeal like with our Compute Against Cancer campaign.

See http://www.parabon.com for more info.

According to the Parabon download page, they are currently developing versions of their software for Linux, Mac, and other unix variants.

Go here to have them notify you when the version for the platform of your choice is ready.

According to the Parabon download page, they are currently developing versions of their software for Linux, Mac, and other unix variants.

Go here to have them notify you when the version for the platform of your choice is ready.

A major contender that didn't make it into this story is Parabon Computation. We're general-purpose (you can run anything on our system) and commercial -- we'll be publically available to anybody who wants to run a job, and we'll pay people to run an engine (or allow them to donate time or payment to good causes). Our server and engine are robust, scalable, safe (security was a major design consideration), and ready for the big time -- we're doing an open beta test now (http://www.parabon.com). We even have clients running already -- biological computation, even very cool photorealistic rendering (http://www.parabon.com/challenges.jsp). We're poised to do some really cool things -- and we're much further along than most of those mentioned in the article, who are generally either non-profit or just in the initial financing and design stages now.

-spc

A major contender that didn't make it into this story is Parabon Computation. We're general-purpose (you can run anything on our system) and commercial -- we'll be publically available to anybody who wants to run a job, and we'll pay people to run an engine (or allow them to donate time or payment to good causes). Our server and engine are robust, scalable, safe (security was a major design consideration), and ready for the big time -- we're doing an open beta test now (http://www.parabon.com). We even have clients running already -- biological computation, even very cool photorealistic rendering (http://www.parabon.com/challenges.jsp). We're poised to do some really cool things -- and we're much further along than most of those mentioned in the article, who are generally either non-profit or just in the initial financing and design stages now.

-spc

A major contender that didn't make it into this story is Parabon Computation. We're general-purpose (you can run anything on our system) and commercial -- we'll be publically available to anybody who wants to run a job, and we'll pay people to run an engine (or allow them to donate time or payment to good causes). Our server and engine are robust, scalable, safe (security was a major design consideration), and ready for the big time -- we're doing an open beta test now (http://www.parabon.com). We even have clients running already -- biological computation, even very cool photorealistic rendering (http://www.parabon.com/challenges.jsp). We're poised to do some really cool things -- and we're much further along than most of those mentioned in the article, who are generally either non-profit or just in the initial financing and design stages now.

-spc