Confused-Wikipedia says this project is dead. [Not]

[pgary]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Dev ... ch_Project

The above page says "According to an announcement on the grid.org forums,[9] after the HPF1 project was completed it was left to continue running on grid.org until August 9, 2006.[10] During that time, members whose computers were configured to run this project got new work and spent computing resources calculating a result, but the result was returned to grid.org for points only -- it was not used for scientific research."

I have been participating in the folding@home project for years, and have been advertising it and other distributed computing projects on my website, Free Frequent Flyer Miles(on the Click for Miles, Money, and Good Causes page), along with other grid.org projects - Anthrax, Smallpox, and Cancer research. I haven't been paying any attention to it at all until one of my readers told me that my link to grid.org was not functional. So I find grid.org, only to discover that they no longer provide a means of signing up for good distributed computing projects.

Questions:

• I downloaded folding@home from grid.org. It still seems to be running and uploading data. Am I still contributing to scientific research?
• Where can I tell my readers to read about and sign up for other worthy distrubted computing projects?

If you want to write to me privately, my email address is on my website.

Thanks.

Gary Steiger

[sneakers55]

Where can I tell my readers to read about and sign up for other worthy distrubted computing projects?

You can send them to http://folding.stanford.edu as they're quite alive.

[NicoV]

Well, Folding@Home is Folding@Home, not related at all to grid.org, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding%40home

Are you sure you downloaded folding@home from grid.org ? The only site authorized for distributing folding@home is stanford website.
You can start participating really in folding@home, http://folding.stanford.edu

[pgary]

Hmm. I guess The IBM-sponsored Human Proteome Folding Project ("HPF") is not the same as folding at home. Perhaps that project referred me to folding@home upon its completion.

OK. I now know how to get people to folding@home, and I am convinced that this is the software I am using, since a link on its main page brought me here. Previously I stated on this sort of thing with SETI. then switched to a cancer research project where they were trying to match cancer molecules with potential molecules that might cure it. Does anyone know where I can find these or similar distrubted computing projects?

Thanks.

[bruce]

OK. I now know how to get people to folding@home, and I am convinced that this is the software I am using, since a link on its main page brought me here. Previously I stated on this sort of thing with SETI. then switched to a cancer research project where they were trying to match cancer molecules with potential molecules that might cure it. Does anyone know where I can find these or similar distrubted computing projects?

Grid did shut down but as has already been stated, it is unrelated to Folding@home.

We're a support site for Folding@Home so naturally we feel it's the best DC project around -- by far. I could give you lots of reasons, but you will still need to decide what you want to work on, and why.

Perhaps this will help. http://distributedcomputing.info/projects.html (It's a bit distorted beause it shows each BOINC project individually and it only shows FAH one place, even though there are a couple hundred folding projects actively running within FAH.)

[pgary]

Wow! I am pleased to see that distributed computing has become so popular and useful. Thanks, Bruce. This is exactly what I needed. I will get the info up on my website, probably this week. And thanks for adding [not] to my subject title.

[7im]

URWelcome.