Yes!

Don't companies pay data centers to compute their work? Maybe this is something like that on a micro-scale, hehe. It'd actually be very cool if funds could be raised to buy time for Rosetta@Home work units, but I fear $1.50 wouldn't get a second even ;) On the other hand, it can't be that expensive either or companies would just set up their own centers...

Rather expensive is an understatement :)

5.8 million (current creds/day) credits is equivalent to about 9700 dual proc machines with 2 gigs of ram (the new workstations I'm installing in our office with dual amd 2.6ghz get ~600 credits a day)

IBM had a service a few years ago that charged $1 per cpu/hour on their farm. Let's assume that's $1 per machines-i-have-in-the-office per hour. 9700 * 24 = over $230,000 a day!

Unless the Gates foundation accidentally adds a few zeros to the lab's AIDS grant, the volunteered time by all the folks here is much greater than anything that could be outsourced.

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how would you even go about transferring credits over to someone?

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how would you even go about transferring credits over to someone?

The offer I saw was that they would join your team until they had accumulated the credits offered.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

so when you earn credits for a team, those credits stay with the team even after you leave?

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so when you earn credits for a team, those credits stay with the team even after you leave?

Correct. The credits go in to the team's tally while you are a member. The user profile always gets credit as well. The team is meant to be a collection of the credits of all of it's members, but with people coming and going, they wanted some consistency rather then having team members walking off with a year of credits.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

I don't really see the problem to this idea. If teams are willing to pay some people in order to get credits, they should be able to do that. And the same amount of crunching is still being done, so it has the same effect on the project as a whole. Credits do nothing anyway, so if people are willing to pay for them, I'd take it and hopefully get enough to buy another computer to run Rosetta on.

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I got too curious to see if teams were willing to do this, so I offered myself up on ebay. 20,000 credits. We'll see if anyone bites.

My Indentured Servitude

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Your post doesn't indicate the time period in which you will earn the credits. Teams REALLY want the credits to fall within a given month.

Nor does it designate a specific project, what if they point you to some rouge project X which only grants a credit per day per CPU? You need to put some kind of limit on CPU hours just to protect yourself I should think.

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Add this signature to your EMail:
Running Microsoft's "System Idle Process" will never help cure cancer, AIDS nor Alzheimer's. But running Rosetta@home just might!
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

alright, i think i have those two bases covered

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