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Here are some great tools and add-ons that will enhance your distributed computing experience.


Computer Work Calculator is an interactive web page that allows you to estimate the "fair value of a slice of CPU power," estimate the cost of purchasing that amount of power on a commercial distributed computing network, or estimate the soonest possible time that you can execute a given number of instructions for a given amount of money.


Many add-on tools for SETI@home are listed in the SETI@home FAQ. These include tools to maintain and view logs of work units, display stats about your current work unit in a small Graphical User Interface (GUI), view extended information about SETI@home team statistics, and buffer multiple work units on your system so that you don't need to connect to the SETI@home servers after completing each work unit.


COWPump uses WinAmp's Visualization plug-in to visualize distributed.net's client's performance.


DSpy is a Win32 executable that monitors up to tenSengent D2OL and/or Community TSC clients. Version 0.964 R1 of the client is available as of January 21, 2003. This version supports the new protein targets that Community TSC began in January, 2003.


KDFold monitors up to 10,000 Folding@Home, Genome@Home, Distributed Folding and Find-a-Drug clients (Find-a-Drug is currently only supported in the Windows client). It is available as an executable or source code for Linux and Windows, and it is customizable with auto-sizeable skins. All skinned versions have a rollup button on them in the title bar: the button is different for each skin. Version 5.8f of the WinKDFold (for Windows) and LinKDFold (for Linux) client is available as of November 16, 2002.


Google Compute, a feature of the Google Toolbar, volunteers your computer to work on distributed computing projects when it would otherwise be idle. It currently supports the Folding@Home project. In the future it will support other projects and will use your computer to "improve Google and its services." You can enable and disable this feature of the Google Toolbar at any time, and you can access your stats for the projects you are contributing to. All Google Compute volunteers are grouped into the Team Google team for projects that support teams.


Distributed Proofreaders Client (DPC) is a Windows application, written by Charles A., which allows you to proofread e-texts for the Distributed Proofreaders projecton your PC instead of through the Distributed Proofreaders website. The latest version of the client is available as of October 20, 2002.


Distributed Folding GUI provides a graphical way for Windows users to start, stop, and run the Distributed Folding client software. It shows you how many structures have been completed in the current block, how fast the structures are being folded, and gives an estimated time for when the block will be completed (and it lets you write this benchmarking information to a file which you can share with friends). It also lets you change the options used for the Distributed Folding client.


Folding@Home Grapher graphs and analyzes Folding@Home team statistics over time." "The current functionality includes the ability to download and store team statistics from the Folding@Home site and display a graph showing the performance of any subset of teams."


ECC2-109 GUI provides a graphical way for Windows users to start, stop, and run the ECC2-109 client software. It shows you how many distinguished points you have found and how fast the distinguished points are being found, and displays benchmarking information about your system (you can write this benchmarking information to a file which you can share with friends).


ECC2-109 GUI provides a graphical way for Windows users to view statistics from multiple instances of the ECC2-109 client software. It shows you how many distinguished points each instance has found and how many points are being tested per second, and it allows you to start and stop remote instances and to edit the .cfg file via the GUI.


FoldMonitor by Denis Hruza is a PerlTk script (or Win32 executable) that graphically monitors Folding@Home version 2 clients. It also monitors Genome@Home clients if you run it with a --genome option, and Distributed Folding clients if you run it with a --distribfold option. The PerlTk version requires you to have Perl/Tk installed on your system. It supports skins and color themes, so you can customize its look. Version 5.1.4 is available as of May 23, 2002.


CPH by Chris Harper is a small, simple, and fast Win98 application which monitors your Genome@Home client. It provides a lot of information about your current and cached work units, estimated work unit completion time, and your project stats. It also starts and stops your Genome@Home client.


Genome Spy monitors and analyzes a nearly unlimited number of Genome@Home clients in one application window. It is written in Visual Basic 6 and is currently only available for the Win32 platform. Version 0.98.32 is available as of January 12, 2002.


Folding Timer is a web-based tool that allows you to estimate the time it will take for your system to complete one Folding@Home protein folding work unit.


SETI Timer is a web-based tool that allows you to estimate the time it will take for your system to process one SETI@Home data block.


Molecular Voyeur by Kevin 'Mashrinx' Scott allows users to graphically monitor the progress of the Genome@home and Folding@Home client applications.


Genome Voyeur by Kevin 'Mashrinx' Scott allows users to graphically monitor the progress of the Genome@Home client application.


Folding Voyeur by Kevin 'Mashrinx' Scott allows users to graphically monitor the progress of the Folding@Home client application.


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editor: Paul Lindgren