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MeMongo
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.03.11 03:06:00 -
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Please join us in our real scientific search for Gravity Waves and Pulsars by joining the "Eve Online Research Team" at Einstein@Home.
According to Albert Einstein, we live in a universe full of gravitational waves. He suggested that the movements of heavy objects, such as black holes and dense stars, create waves that change space and time. We have a chance to detect these waves, but we need your help to do it!
Einstein@Home uses computer time donated by computer owners all over the world to process data from gravitational wave detectors. Participants in Einstein@Home download software to their computers, which process gravitational wave data when not being used for other computer applications, like word processors or games. Einstein@Home doesnÆt affect the performance of computers and greatly speeds up this exciting research.
Once you sign on for your Einstein@Home account, be sure to join up with the Eve Online Research Team. Lets put the other teams to shame and show that we not only know how to have fun but that we can contribute to a serious scientific research effort.
You can join here: Einstein@Home
Feel free to convo me if you have any questions.
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Taua Roqa
Minmatar
Toroidal Bum-Donuts
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Posted - 2010.03.11 08:21:00 -
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my computers power consumption jumps by ~150/200watts when I run one of these @home type things. other peoples could very well jump 500 watts and more - this can cost you a fair bit over time :)
just thought I'd put that out there :)
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Ella C'Tronix
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Posted - 2010.03.11 09:47:00 -
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I love the concept but unfortunately, ISPs these days are hampering such things in their indiscriminate bandwidth capping. Running these will definitely cost some people some money.
ALSO!!
As cool as the space theme is,
there are more immediately useful efforts like this. The SETI@Home approach to distributed computing is being applied to things like... the search for cures to cancers and aids and stuff. It'd be pretty neat to get some eve stuff going for one of those.
Oh, and I almost forgot. I just made you read my signature. |
Magnus Nordir
Caldari
Nordir Industries
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Posted - 2010.03.11 10:37:00 -
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Edited by: Magnus Nordir on 11/03/2010 10:39:33
 Originally by: Taua Roqa
my computers power consumption jumps by ~150/200watts when I run one of these @home type things. other peoples could very well jump 500 watts and more - this can cost you a fair bit over time :)
just thought I'd put that out there :)
I donate all spare CPU cycles of my 5 PCs and a PS3 to the Folding@Home project, and the power costs compared to letting them idle when I'm not using them is around Ç10 per month. Divide that by 6 if you use a single PC, and there you have it. With 5 PCs running on full CPU load, it also keeps my room comfortably warm in the winter. 
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I love the concept but unfortunately, ISPs these days are hampering such things in their indiscriminate bandwidth capping. Running these will definitely cost some people some money.
I don't know about other projects, but Folding@Home only uses bandwidth to send and receive work units. An idle Intel C2D PC will usually complete one WU a day, and work units are around 10-20MB in size. The bandwidth use is negligible compared to downloading a movie or even playing EVE online for longer periods.
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