And y'aaar, mateys! Ye scurvy dogs who thought 'Talk Like a Pirate Day' on 19th September was a good idea might like to check out Pirates@Home. This is, in reality, just a test project for BOINC itself, and at the moment is not doing any real scientific computation. But shiver me timbers, laddie, it be great fun writing about it. Y'aaar!
http://pirates.vassar.edu/ (ye homepage where I buried my doubloons, y'aaar).
Random DC Highlights The Predictor@home Alpha Testing is internally testing the client with BOINC major version 4. Server crashes that occurred with v.3 have disappeared and progress is being made towards a release of the client on v.4, the version used by Climateprediction.net and SETI@home. The Climateprediction.net BOINC project has been public for a month and Team 2CPU is currently ranked 27th with 20 members using 50 computers. The communityTSC team is always looking for more members and is a great project to join, helping create drugs to treat patients with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC). The team is currently in 56th place and with the help from new members 50th place should be an easy goal to attain. Go to the General DC forum to learn more about our other Distributed Computing teams.
The TCS team has moved up to 55th place and I have now moved up from 6th on the 2CPU team to 5th.