BOINC if your an Atheist!
The people at the Richard Dawkins Foundation of Reason and Science are encouraging everybody to consider donating CPU time to a BOINC project. When you sign up for a BOINC project they would like you to also show your support for the Richard Dawkins Foundation (RDF) by joining the RDF BOINC team; specify “Richard Dawkins Foundation of Reason and Science” as the team name when joining a project.
BOINC is software developed at Berkley University that will use idle CPU cycles on your computer for scientific research.
There are a large number of projects which you can select from to donate you CPU to; everything from research on infectious diseases to search for intelligent life on other planets.
Here at AtheistRamblings we currently subscribe to the following projects:
- LHC@home - Helping the design and research at the Large Hadron Collider.
- SETI@home - Looking for ET.
- Einstein@home - Search for spinning neutron stars
- Rosetta@ home - Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may lead to finding cures for human diseases.
- Predictor@home - Predict protein structure from protein sequence.
- World Community Grid - Various projects to benefit humanity.
When you install BOINC on your machine you can choose to install it as a screen saver or as a service. If installed as a screensaver BOINC will only run when the screensaver is displayed, that is only after the computer has been unused for a a number of minutes (30 by default).
Where as if you install it as a service BOINC will run whenever the CPU has nothing to do; right now as your reading this article your computer could be running BOINC in the background. I’d recommend that you get BOINC and that you run it as a service.
