What the heck is the "cow" and "proteins"

[THE V_I_R_U_S]

I have heard these terms on these forums. For example:

"This cow is chewing a cud the size Cleveland!"

"What's the target protein, and on what system?


I have no idea what they mean..................

[vass0922]

hahaha
DC Projects, most often UD
www.ud.com join the team!!!
www.techimo.com/teams.html

Crackin' proteins towards the cure for cancer... the machines that do the crunching are for some (unknown to me) reason called cows

[Tachyon]

Calling your PCs "cows" comes from the RC5 distributed computing project in which the client software had a cow for the icon. I think the client might have had cow sounds too but I’m not sure.

-Tachyon

Right you are Tachyon, it's also came to be a term for any "herd" of computers. Also the Techimo UD Team is call the Ex Mad Cows .. (long story) Or Formerly deranged Bovines .. Or...

[RustyGT]

A bump's as a good as wink.

Figure sometime we'll hear the tale.
How a city girl rode the wild plains.
Came to be known, in the west.
As the "Bovine DeRanger"

YeeHah!

The UD THINK project makes use of the unused CPU cycles of computers all over the internet to analyze proteins for interactions that could eventually lead to the cure for cancer. A cow is a term used to refer to any computer that's part of this, or one of the other Distributed Computing projects. Some of the work units that are sent out are particurally difficult to "digest" so that's where the reference to "chewing a cud the size Cleveland" comes from.

so, v_i_r_u_s, ya gonna saddle up and git out there and herd ya some little doggies?



Tanslation: Are you interested in loading UD agent on a number of computers and joining the TecIMO UD Cancer Team?

BTW, does anyone know a link to, or can the tell the story of, the origin of the name Ex Mad Cows?

I got the impression it was something to do with a team called Dutch Power Cows, but I could be wrong