If you have spare computing power, consider donating some of that to a distributed computing project (boinc.berkeley.edu)

submitted 1 year ago by mikyopii@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Berkeley has this really cool program called BOINC that you can download and donate your computer's resources to processing scientific data. There are a bunch of projects to pick, from working on climate change, to cancer, to the Large Hadron Collider.

The good folks at linuxserver.io even have a ready to go Docker container for easy setup: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/boinc

Another possibility is running the Archive Team's Warrior, which downloads data from at risk web sites and uploads them to the Internet Archive: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

Does anyone else have examples of projects like this? My dream is for the Fediverse to have this sort of feature eventually.

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[-] rah@feddit.uk 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] eros@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

One would assume they mean sitting around, doing nothing. Some would rather use some electricity to support a good cause than have the computing power sit there idle.

[-] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

That makes sense. Thank you.

[-] rah@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] eros@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I mean yeah, but no. It is spare capacity, so it's spare in one way.

I have hundreds of gigaflops of computing power sitting idle 80% of the time, I just don't think the taxpayers would appreciate the power bill if I put it all to use like that. But at home I can spare a few cycles on my solar power sipping Proxmox cluster.

[-] FermatsLastAccount@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I use a VPS. They don't charge based on CPU utilization so I run Folding@Home on it.

[-] tetra@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Please only do this on plans with a dedicated vCPU that isn't shared with other users.

[-] CaptObvious@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I’ve participated in their SETI and cancer research projects in the past. It’s a good cause, and I don’t mind making a donation.

I did think the BOINC project was shut down, though. Good to know it’s still going.

[-] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 6 points 1 year ago

My very cursory understanding is that SETI was shutting down, but BOINC (so folding etc) should still be going.

[-] CaptObvious@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That’s really good to know. Thanks!

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