How many prime numbers or ET will you find if you're dead? None. That's why investigating on health is more important. First things first.

Good news is that, as of today, both WCG and Poem do support GPUs :-)

I agree. The merits of some of these projects are dubious when compared to the possibilities of others.

I do the health ones, but I also do a couple astronomy ones. Nothing is more fundamental to us than the realities of the universe. Living longer is most important to me, but almost equally important is like milkyway@home and cosmology@home.

And then I do the climateprediction.net one too.

Prime numbers? It's possible there will be some future application, but also it's possible that in the future random flips of the coin will be important too. So maybe we should have a random_coin_flip@home where a computer flips a coin over and over again......as it comes ever closer to 50%. I'll stick with cancer and the universe.

I agree. The merits of some of these projects are dubious when compared to the possibilities of others.

Merit and dubiousness are a matter of perspective. For example, if you didn't know about cancer then many of the health related projects would be of duubious merit to you.

I do the health ones, but I also do a couple astronomy ones. Nothing is more fundamental to us than the realities of the universe.

Prime numbers have much to do with the mathematics we use to describe, quantify and investigate the realities of the universe. I suspect you have much to learn on that topic.

Prime numbers? It's possible there will be some future application

There are real and important applications for prime numbers today in the field of data encryption just for one example. Data encryption is related to your health by the fact that if certain people decrypt your government's military communications they'll launch one of your own nukes and make you its target or wait until your government launches one then redirect it back to you. That could interfere with your desire to live longer.

...but also it's possible that in the future random flips of the coin will be important too.

They're important right now and have been since the beginning of time.

So maybe we should have a random_coin_flip@home where a computer flips a coin over and over again......as it comes ever closer to 50%.

That *would* be a useless project. The nature of randomness is pretty much understood. A coin flipper project wouldn't teach us anything. The study of primes does.

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How many prime numbers or ET will you find if you're dead? None. That's why investigating on health is more important. First things first.

Good news is that, as of today, both WCG and Poem do support GPUs :-)

I'd prefer to run health projects so I run POEM (when they're not out of WUs) with Einstein as backup and primegrid as a secondary backup if neither of those has GPU work.

Unfortunately, WCG wont run on my old nVidia 9600 GT, probably because it doesn't have double precision floating point. WCG doesn't give a reason, it just says "The Help Conquer Cancer NVIDIA GPU application cannot run on your graphics card".

I'm not a gamer so I just have a low end graphics card. I'm going to update to a more modern card that has DP floating point but it will still be a low end one. That will also get me more modern HD video decoders on the card and cut down on power usage.

David

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David Ball