I'm new and I was wondering if any of you knew of the BOINC program....

[Jasana]

BOINC is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to science projects like SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, and many others.

After installing BOINC on your computer, you can connect it to as many of these projects as you like.

You may run this software on a computer only if you own the computer or have the permission of its owner.
link: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

Right now I'm running Einstein At home.

Per wiki that's: "Einstein@Home is a volunteer distributed computing project hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany). The project is directed by Bruce Allen. Running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform, Einstein@Home searches through data from the LIGO detectors for evidence of continuous gravitational-wave sources, which are expected for instance from rapidly spinning non-axisymmetric neutron stars. Einstein@Home also searches radio telescope data from the Arecibo Observatory for radio pulsars. On August 12, 2010, the first discovery by Einstein@Home of a previously undetected radio pulsar J2007+2722, found in data from the Arecibo Observatory, was published in Science.[3][4] The project has discovered 46 pulsars as of August 2012.[5]"

I'll never be smart enough to be an astronomer or theoretical physicist but I sure don't mind crunching their data.

[Johnny Noshoes]

1. Hi.... Welcome to DU. I run BOINC

I 'm running it with SETI@home. I have been running this for years.

[Jasana]

2. That's excellent!

I started with the seti@home project many years ago too. Sometimes I use the BOINC software to switch between Einsten@athome and seti.

As I said before, I may not be smart enough to be some great scientist but I sure get satisfaction helping them crunch their data. I love this program. It's a perfect way for amateurs to feel like they're chipping in to some worthwhile scientific endeavor.

[krispos42]

3. I've been with SETI@Home since May of '99

DU has a team for that and for the climate change one.
those are the two that I do.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Hey, same with me

Been running seti@home for ages and the climate model one in the past few years.

[Jasana]

7. I'll have to check out the Du teams...

Thanks for letting me know about them.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. There is a folding@home group here at DU ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022823095

I'm involved w/MacGIMPS (a non-BOINC project) myself, but SETI@home was my first step into the world of distributed computing projects.

For a list of ongoing BOINC projects, see http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php

[Jasana]

6. Did Folding at Home...

for awhile with a team of Modders. It's an excellent program.