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I am a German physicist in the early fifties [1]. I love my wife, son and daughters, computers, books and music, each of which does get too little attention due to the necessity of having to earn a living [2].
When I started with distributed computing at Seti@Home (classic), I used to crunch alone. After switching to BOINC, I finally became a member of team BOINC Synergy, which makes crunching even more fun. Chatting in the friendly and helpful forum, crunching together to promote a Project of the Month, and seeing what you can achieve as a team makes it worthwhile to join a team. I strongly recommend it to anybody.
Notes:
[1] I could give the exact age, but then would have to update my profile on a regular basis, which - at my age - I will certainly forget. ;-)
[2] Not that I don't enjoy my work. But I happen to know even more enjoyable ways to spend my day. ;-)
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I joined Rosetta because I was looking for a project that
- is a benefit to humanity, e.g. medical research or similar
- has considerably shorter work units than CPDN
- can be run on slow or old computers
Rosetta of course offers all of that.
I especially like the long list of diseases that the research on proteins covers. This project does not concentrate on one specific topic of high scientific interest with little benefit for mankind. Instead Rosetta covers basic research in proteins and certainly has the potential to support medical progress in the search of a cure of the most critical diseases. |
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