Looking for a SMOOTH running DC Project...

[Jagators]

The title says it all..

 

[Crazee]

I have found DF, Seti and Find a Drug to all be pretty smooth running.

 

[Robor]

How about Distributed Folding? I run it and have no problems with the client. Check any thread started by m0ti for more info.

I agree with Crazee on SETI@Home except for the issue (pauses) with Outlook2K & SETI under Win2K.

 

[Confused]

I've not had any problems with Seventeen Or Bust, apart from 1 spurt of about 4 hrs when the server crashed, but apart from that

The client is small (about 500k to download), it uses a small footprint (7MB at the moment on my box), and the Team is small, so you can make a huge impact

We have also had 2 results in the past 8 days, finding 2 prime numbers


Confused

 

[BGod]

The Distributed.net client is very stable and configurable. They've had quite a few years to iron out the kinks and the latest client for RC5-72 although not optimized for every CPU is quite good. You'll be joining a "long haul" project from the ground floor. It just started officially this week. Hope to see you there!

 

[kadajawi]

Hmm, I don't really understand what you mean by smooth, but anyway F@H is a good project

Ps: I don't really know if dnet is sooooo smooth as the guys working on it are quite busy with their job on UD (although they are quite experienced). OGR hasn't been fixed for... how long? A year or two? But of course RC5 as their main project gets a bit more attention...

 

[BitSpit]

I second Find-a-Drug. It just installs and runs. Right now we just have 4 members, but even with that many we're able to climb the ranks. We've already gone from 26 to 24 this week. However, if we're going to get into the top 10, we'll need many more members.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Jagators
The title says it all..

Neither I nor anyone I have talked to has had any problems with the Folding@Home client. According to this article it does not adversely affect performance. FWIW, if you're interested, you can check out some links to get started in Folding@Home for Team AnandTech (ID 198) here.

 

[deerslayer]

I've never encountered any problems with the SETI CLI client. They all have ran smoothly for me in Win2k, WinXP, WinME, Win98SE as I have installed it on all of those operating systems

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: LyNx01
I've never encountered any problems with the SETI CLI client. They all have ran smoothly for me in Win2k, WinXP, WinME, Win98SE as I have installed it on all of those operating systems

When I was running SETI@Home I didn't have any problems with it either. However, it did have problems with Outlook 2k (and may still have), so if you're planning to deploy it on a corporate network, you should probably consider testing it on a few noncritical machines first (for that matter, you should test any DC project you decide to run on a machine that isn't critical to the network before widespread deployment). Of course, if you're an IT person, you probably already know this.

 

[FoBoT]

best thing to do is try them out, your mileage may vary

 

[MoFunk]

I chose Seti. Runs great for me.