Suggestion: Formation of Distributed Computing Team.

Cretin.Penguin

Heya all, not sure kat mana nak letak ni tapi I rasa acceptable lagipun selalu lepak sini...  Anyway, kalau Mod rasa ada tempat yg lagi sesuai takde masalah nak ubah mana2 section....

So, pernah dengar pasal Distributed Computing?  Dulu I rajin buat, time tu ada access kat network yg ada dalam 30+ PCs & I'm the unofficial Admin...     So, dari bazirkan processing power PC2 tu semua, lagi baik gunakannya untuk kepentingan bersama...

Anyway, Distributed Computing refers to harnessing the excess and unused processing cycle whenever any PC is on; dengan internet semua PC boleh membuat sumbangan terhadap tujuan yg sama.  Seingat saya, antara project yg paling popular bila cakap pasal Distributed Computing ni adalah SETI@home Projects....  The basic concept of SETI@home adalah penggunaan PC around the world untuk download dan menganalisa extraterrestrial radio telescope data; initiated by the University of California at Berkeley...

So, now the SETI@home project have at least 3  million users/contributors all over the world.  Currently, a common program was built to cater all projects that would be almost impossible to be cracked if not for this kind of volunteers.  Enter Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BIONC), still under UCal@Berkeley which hopes to be able to solve some pretty impossible problems of mankind.

So, I dah cari kat sini tapi takde team untuk Cari Forum....   Maybe kita boleh start?  Sambil berforum or buat kerja or smtg, maybe kita boleh contribute untuk menyelesaikan masalah kanser by helping researchers to do our bits of data-crunching while the PC is idling?   Ada banyak lagi projects yg kita boleh contribute, just head-on to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php  and check it out.

Then maybe kita boleh start 1 team, even just for the fun of it.  So, meh le bagi suggestion untuk nama team, project yg nak masuk etc....

Thanks, hopefully things like cancer or effects of world's climate, will be things of the past....

Cretin.Penguin

No taker, huh?     Jgn le kedekut cycle, banyak lagi kalau yg terlebih tu even dengan normal CPU.  So, kalau dengan dual-core or more....  Memang macam boring je CPU tu nak buat keje....  

Anyway, guna internet pun tak le banyak cuma file2 kecik je masa download data-chunks & nak upload result.  My profile kat situ dah lupa password le, so tak boleh nak dapatkan benda2 yg I dah buat sebelum ni.  So I'll just put in general info je lah.

Ini pecahan mengikut projects:


Malaysia menyumbang 321 GigaFLOPS, Japan 9,094 GigaFLOPS....  Compared to 153,446 GigaFLOPS by USA!

Anyway, just upping the thread to the top for a while...

[ Last edited by  Cretin.Penguin at 3-4-2008 08:06 PM ]

juwaini

Yang aku ingat, projek sebegini pernah digunakan untuk pecahkan hasil darab dua nombor perdana yang besar untuk digunakan dalam RSA..

Cretin.Penguin

Yep, some problems are just too big to handle even for the Big Blue...  So, grid computing all over the world with people sharing their idling CPU cycle for a good cause will make such problems just a piece of cake.

Anyway, thanks for replying.     At least, I won't feel odd; being the "crazy guy with crazy ideas".  Hehhe     Still hoping that we'll get a team setup & start crunching data.  Even for SETI project, would it be cool to have your name as the first one that found an alien signal?  A cheap credit, but still.....  

juwaini

At first, maybe you should present the ideas in your mind, so that people can evaluate whether your ideas are plausible and make sense or not..

SETI uh? Looks great.. I hope that I can contribute something here...

Cretin.Penguin

The ideas are basically presented in my opening post, pretty clear I presumed...     Maybe to much?    

Anyway, the infrastructure is already there, supported by a well established university in the States.  They got the data ready on queue, just that the volunteers are the missing link.  

BTW, my idea is to put up a team of people who frequent this forum and decide on the main project to work on.  SETI was my old favorite, but I'd rather inclined to unlock the mystery of our DNA.  This is the base of everything in our world; knowing the mystery of DNA will basically eliminate terminal illness such as cancer, Down Syndrom etc as we can target those markers & remove it before they even have a chance to be passed on to the next generation.  Other worth mentions are Climate Prediction, Protein, Rosetta etc....

Also, if we don't wanna have the program running on our taskbar, I can help on running BOINC as a Service on Win2000 or above.  Or you could run it as a screen-saver which showing pretty graphics showing the process of data crunching.

Cretin.Penguin

Upppssss....

I'll try lagi sekali le, esok Earth Day ni....  Ada sapa2 yg dah pernah try & sudi letak screenshots tak?  Sapa2 yg duduk kat dalam server room or system admin tu boleh le try buat project ni.  Gua tengah guna PC backup ni, PIV first generation ni....  Jap lagi nak kena settle problem yg tertangguh kat PC AMD AM2 x64 gua le....

pelaga

Originally posted by Cretin.Penguin at 3-4-2008 08:03 PM
No taker, huh?     Jgn le kedekut cycle, banyak lagi kalau yg terlebih tu even dengan normal CPU.  So, kalau dengan dual-core or more....  Memang macam boring je CPU tu nak buat keje....   ...

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