What's New

01/24/2012
Unit Sixteen has been running smoothly without any issues. Unfortunately, Unit Eightteen has been temporarily taken off line because the UPS it is on is also the UPS for Sixteen, which became overloaded. I have completed the setup of the new UPS management cards and I now have a rough idea of how much power each unit pulls. This has allowed me to come up with a plan to rearrange some of the units so that I can bring Eightteen back on line. I have also added a new graph to show how long the units have been in the pool. There was some website cleanup and tidying as well. Hopefully, you won't even notice those changes. 49,145,239 (#688 out of 584,026).

01/03/2012
I've been given another quad processor server to work with. This means that the old Unit Sixteen will be replaced, not repaired. Also, I'm taking the time to upgrade the network management cards in the 3 UPSs to allow me the ability to see a log of power usage as well as better control over each UPS. With all of these changes you may see some red or yellow lights on the status panel until I get them fully configured. Also, the KVM/IP unit I've been using to remote access the consoles, has finally proven to be too old to work with any current browser/OS. So, that now goes in the trash as well. 48,026,347 (#694 out of 582,546).

Welcome to refuse4research

refuse4research serves the global research community by partnering with the World Community Grid in order to further their mission, "...to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity."

The methodology for refuse4research is unique:

Donated 3rd hand and broken computers (i.e., refuse that would have wound up in a land fill) are repaired in order to run the software used to conduct research. Most of the infrastructure used (cables, racks, etc.) is also recycled or recovered. The ultimate goal is to use renewable energy to run recycled equipment, leaving virtually no new carbon footprint.

Statistics

refuse4research has been online for 3 years, 250 days.
Current Activity: 16 computers processing 62 concurrent work units.
Daily Averages: 88.84 results turned in for 36,686.60 points awarded.
Last Result: 1 hour, 5 minutes ago.
CPU Run Time: 136 years, 260 days, 15 hours (#178 out of 584,377).
Results Turned In: 119,663 (#541 out of 584,377).
Points Awarded: 49,416,847 (#690 out of 584,377).
Current Speed: 93.463 GFlops.

Project Badges Earned:
Sapphire Level Badge (2 years) for FightAIDS@Home Emerald Level Badge (1 year) for Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together Ruby Level Badge (180 days) for The Clean Energy Project Gold Level Badge (90 days) for Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2

Sponsor

Saddle Creek Corporation is the sponsor of this project. They have selflessly given refuse4research equipment, support, power, and internet access.

Special Thanks

Special thanks to Woody Blaylock; VP IS and Kathy Fulton; Director ALAN for seeing the value in this endeavor and authorizing the use of Saddle Creek resources and to Bill Baker for his help getting the server equipment sorted out and installed. I also want to thank John Peek for his assistance in keeping the data network running.

Lastly, and most importantly, I want to thank my wife for her invaluable guidance on the usability of the website, her seemingly infinite patience with the long nights I have spent either at the data center or in my office working on this thing, and most of all, her belief in this project and my efforts. Thanks, Beety-Sweet!