Join team BatMUD on the different grid projects we're participating in. By
joining you'll be part of a massive number crunching community using your
computers idle time to calculate scientific data.

Choose from many projects the one(s) standing closest to your heart and join
team BatMUD. If the project you wan't to participate in doesn't have a BatMUD
team, create one

The projects we're working on now, and our ranks:

SETI@home 1264
Einstein@home 1212
World Community Grid 8277
Rosetta@home 1723
Climatepredition.net 4978
LHC@home 665

You see! We're _almost_ leading on the LHC!

Cure cancer or find E.T. More info here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

-Procyon

It's a noble cause, but I find the term 'idle time' a bit amusing.
I ran seti for a year while holding a power consumption meter on
the back of the power supply, and another year without it. The
difference on the electric bill was staggering.

It should say 'donate your money through electric bills'. A
computer's modern cpu running on full throttle takes more energy than
a bagfull of electric saving lamps.

But, as I said, it goes for a good cause. I really really hope so.

~/A

I don't have the kWh numbers anymore, but the electric bill went up by
35%. Around 70e (200e/y was the usual bill). On a students budget that
wasn't really amusing.

You can do the math easily. Just get a power consumption meter and
plug it to the same socket as your computer. Then run seti/whatever
and see how much more power your computer takes as opposed to normal
idle humming. Then do an average of how many hours per day your computer
runs in a year.

Then calculate: (power_your_comp_takes*usage_hours_per_year)/1000 and
multiply that with how much one kWh costs in your house (check your
electric bill). On a normal computer that could be like 30-40e/year
or on a 24/7 machine double that. It's not much on a normal budget
of a working family, but consider that SETI just got its one
billionth (1000000000) result, and one package takes and average
of 10 hours to compute. You can do the math of how much "idle time"
people have donated via used electricity just to find E.T:s.

~/A