Rosetta@Home UK #6, and still climbing o/

At this rate I am heading for the UK #4 spot, currently world #65 heading for #33.  I have a few more tricks up my sleeve, I should be able to get back on track for the UK #3 spot.

• My Stats

Its taken me the best part of two weeks on and off, but I finally have my media PC setup in just the way I’d like it. For the most part the machine plays music from my file server and displays its little visualisations. From time to time I will leave some form of TV episode playing on there (usually Top Gear or Invader Zim o/). I know the eluminated keyboard is a little much, but it looks the business sitting on top of the amp.

Right now I can get back to focusing on business, and doing some revision.

 

Well this past week has been interesting on the Rosetta@Home distributed computing project front.  I originally setup 84 machines running the computing application, and had hoped to bring another 50 machines online earlier in the week.  Being somewhat busy with my business ventures prevented this from happening until yesterday afternoon.  I should now have roughly 130 machines running the computations.  I’ve fallen somewhat short of my UK number 3 position by the weekend though.

• UK position: 27th (stats)
• World position: 286th (stats)

Link to profile stats.

I encountered the wonders of distributed computing a long time ago, back when I used to assit with administration of the network at school. At the time I was teaching myself how to render three dimensional images using POVRAY. I installed a distributed computing client on all the machines in the school, this allowed me to render images at a fraction of the time. The platform allowed me to utilise the spare processing power of all the machines on the network.

Things have come a long way since then, with SETI having come and gone, now we have BOINC, I wont go into too much detail, but its a great platform for distributed computing.

Two days ago I setup BOINC on the Rosetta@Home project which aims to predict and design protein structures and protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions. This has already and will continue to aid scientists in developing new cures and medications in the future.

At the time of writting there are 49,754 users registered to the project, who are downloading work units, processing them and sending them back.

In two days of running on this project;

• I am ranked 2813th in the world.
• I have moved up 30,666 positions in the past day.
• I am ranked 214th in the UK.

You can view my live stats here.

My prediction is that by next weekend I will be in the top 5 of the UK rankings, however I doubt I will move higher than 4th in the UK as there are 3 others who process more units a day than I do.