World Community Grid Releases Linux Agent

GrahamHood from WorldCommunityGrid.org writes "The World Community Grid is proud to announce the release of a Linux Agent, for the current Human Proteome Folding Project. Team Slashdot, being the #1 team on the World Community Grid, will be pleased to hear that it is now available for download."

Re:There's another OS besides Windows?

[Agret]

You can just hit the power button and the OS will shutdown itself.

Re:There's another OS besides Windows?

[Chicane-UK]

Or you can make a shortcut on your desktop, to shutdown the computer with the following command line:

shutdown -s -f

Or you can make it do a shutdown and restart with:

shutdown -r -f

The -f option is to forcibly quit any applications that insist on staying open! :)

Re:That's some effort

[strider44]

Statistics seem to show most slashdotians are closet XP users. However I've added my computer to the linux fold (I love puns).

Incidentely the software seems to work fine. It's not pretty and it's just based off standard GTK. When installing you have to remember to read the instructions CAREFULLY as it will give you a link that's needed to attach your account to the server. After this run the file run_manager and it will download a whole lot of files that you need and then after these files are finished downloading it'll automatically start and your trusty CPU counter will go up to 100%.

I'm doing my bit for Team Slashdot!

Re:That's some effort

[J0nne]

It's been general knowledge that the majority of users on /. use Windows. But if you'd compare it to other websites, there's a bigger percentage of users that use Linux (but it's still not the majority).

Incidentally, I'm posting this from Linux (Ubuntu Breezy Badger).

Re:Yes, it IS important.

[strider44]

BOINC$ ./run_client
2005-11-07 23:02:08 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.2.6 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
2005-11-07 23:02:08 [---] libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8 zlib/1.2.3
2005-11-07 23:02:08 [---] Data directory: /home/strider44/BOINC
2005-11-07 23:02:08 [---] Processor: *
2005-11-07 23:02:08 [---] Memory: * MB physical, * GB virtual
2005-11-07 23:02:08 [---] Disk: * GB total, * GB free
2005-11-07 23:02:08 [World Community Grid] Computer ID: *; location: Default; project prefs: default
2005-11-07 23:02:08 [---] General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 1970-01-01 10:00:00)
2005-11-07 23:02:08 [---] General prefs: no separate prefs for Default; using your defaults
2005-11-07 23:02:08 [---] Remote control not allowed; using loopback address
2005-11-07 23:02:08 [World Community Grid] Resuming computation for result de078_2D_0 using rosetta version 419

Perhaps you should have read the instructions before using the wrong command.

Folding @ Home?

[r2tincan]

I was wondering how this World Community Grid stands up to Folding@Home [stanford.edu]?

I'm a member of a F@H team and it seems like there are a lot of people participating. Are these efforts competing against one another or are they different areas of study? I don't quite understand.

Also, I know that the F@H client can run in the background and take up no system resources, only unused processor cycles, (which is part of the reason I use it.) Does the World Community Grid project's clients take up a lot of system resources...?

Re:Source

[amirl]

You're wrong. Boinc is not part of World Community Grid. As a matter of fact, it's 2 different projects. Boinc is indeed open source written by Berkely University but World Community Grid is not. Read more here [worldcommunitygrid.org].

Re:Source

[Vo0k]

except World Community Grid uses Boinc as its Linux agent.

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Thank you Vo0k for downloading the World Community Grid Linux agent.
 
Be sure to have the following information handy when installing the Linux agent:
Account Key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
BOINC Project URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
 
If you'd like to download the Linux agent to another computer, you can do that from this link: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/viewDownload. do
If you have questions about installing and registering the Linux agent, please take a look at the FAQ's at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.d o?shortName=boinc
Thanks,
World Community Grid Team

Godd job guys, my Suns will still go to waste...

[Triode]

It would have been nice to release the source code for the client, eh? Now all of my
idle cpu clocks on all of my dual cpu sun machines will still go to waste heating the
house instead of helping mankind. (the client is AMD or Wintel x86 only).

I suppose the apple guys are in the same camp until 2006 (apple-tel?) also...

When will they ever learn.

Re:Questions

[Anonymous Coward]

1 and 3) Contributed to the public domain

2) * Focused on solving problems to benefit humanity;
* Conducted by public or nonprofit organizations;
* Contributed to the public domain; and
* Accelerated by grid computing technology.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcas e/viewSubmitAProposal.do [worldcommunitygrid.org]

Re:Comparison to Folding@Home

[tayhimself]

This should be rated informative but not insightful. You cannot patent the structure of a protein, because there are several experimental methods to determine structure such as XRAY and NMR crystallography. If you create your own protein which AFAIK noone has created a useful sizeable protein, then maybe you can patent it. Or you can patent special ligand molecules that bind to proteins of medical interest. Heres the wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallography/ [wikipedia.org]