Genome@home

[alphageek31337]

Many of you are familiar with the Genome@home project down at Stanford. For those of you who aren't, the project is a distributed-computing application dedicated to processing all the information found by the Human Genome Project. What this means is that you go to the Genome@home web site (genomeathome.stanford.edu) and download a small program called a client. This client downloads a piece of data from the Stanford servers and, while your computer is idle, processes it. It then sends the processed info back to Stanford, and downloads a new bit. All in all, with the thousands of computers on the net, and all the time each of them spends idle, an incredible amount of processing power is available.

Another thing about this project is that it's team-based. When you sign up, you give them a team id, and any processing you do adds a certain amount of points to that team's total. Well, I took the liberty of starting TeamCellar (id 1177597296), in hopes of getting a few of you who aren't involved in the project yet involved. Not to mention that I jsut think it'd be damn cool for us to pull together and get something done, even if pulling together means just sitting idle. Hell, we may find the Parkinson's gene or soemthing similar. Again, the site is genomeathome.stanford.edu, the team is TeamCellar, the team id # is 1177597296. Get to processing, and maybe some day the Cellar will be up in lights.

Steve