November 23, 2004

Join the WCG Mozilla Team!

After reading a lot about the differences between Folding@Home and World Community Grid, I've decided to try them both. WCG clearly is the more noble of the two, since it strives to "create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity". They will also be hosting many different projects and not just protein folding, which is their first project. They simply appear to be more global community oriented, working on problems that affect the world in significant ways. Folding@Home, on the other hand, has the advantage of supporting lots of platforms, including Macintosh and Linux. Also, who wouldn't want to support Team MozillaZine? :)

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Because of this, I've decided to run WCG on Windows XP and F@H on Fedora Core 3. Windows is my primary OS, which means I will be running WCG most of the time. That only seems fair, since I feel better about running WCG anyway. But I certainly don't want to throw away unused CPU cycles while running Linux, hence my support for F@H.

If you want to give WCG a try, I encourage you to join the Mozilla team I created! It would be cool if we could reach top ten with the team. I'm sure there are lots of Mozilla fans that want to benefit humanity by supporting the Grid. Or at least I hope so! I chose the team name Mozilla to cover people from both camps of the two F@H teams: MozillaZine and Firefox.

Posted by djst at November 23, 2004 12:50 AM
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Who wouldn't want to be in team MozillaZine? Maybe the people that are in the Firefox team - http://firefoxfah.sourceforge.net/ ?

I'm in the Firefox F@H team only because I found out about it first. Last time I checked, the Firefox team was ahead of the MozillaZine team too...

Posted by: michaell at November 23, 2004 12:50 AM

Yes, and as I pointed out, I created a team in WCG with the generic name "Mozilla" just because there are these two rivaling teams in Folding@Home.

What can I say, I like RAF, Spewey, et al, so I chose the MozillaZine team for F@H. But my primary focus will be in the Mozilla team of World Community Grid.

Posted by: David Tenser at November 23, 2004 12:55 AM

Well, I run both distributed computing projects in Windows XP without problems... although the processor does get insanely hot, anything I can do to ease the suffering of people, I will do... ;-)

Posted by: MonsterTruck at November 23, 2004 2:34 AM

Bah, humbug! Determine the primality of very large numbers for the good of humanity instead! ;-)

Posted by: Jeff Walden at November 23, 2004 4:59 AM

Doh... sorry David - I obviously didn't read to the end of your article! The teams are just a bit of fun anyway - I had F@H running for months without contributing to a particular team. The "no team" team always wins by far anyway...

Posted by: michaell at November 23, 2004 12:44 PM

Do you know anything about Figth AIDS @ Home? (http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/)
I've been using it a long time now, but I would like to know if it really does what it says or not. Do you have any idea?

Posted by: børge at November 23, 2004 6:47 PM

børge, I have no idea about it, never heard of it before. I'd say you should go for WCG and join the Mozilla team. ;)

Posted by: David Tenser at November 23, 2004 7:29 PM

Let's not forget SFX@CP.NET is now the fifth... ;-)

Posted by: minghong at November 24, 2004 12:42 AM