Do you belong to folding@home?

Insp. Clue!So? · #1 03-04-2007, 08:15 PM

...Or one of the other research projects?

It would seem to be an easy way to contribute to solid research. Unlike stem cells, there's no controversy involved. And those cycles are being wasted if you do nothing.

I think Lorinda started a 2+2 team for folding@home. Should we start teams for other worthwhile distributed computing projects? Would you join?

Duke · #2 03-04-2007, 09:48 PM

Doesn't that use the same software that SETI@Home does? I stopped using them when they stopped being just screen savers and I had noticeable slowdown doing everything else on my computer.

pvn · #3 03-05-2007, 12:06 AM

I did a lot of folding at home until party kicked US players out.

but SRSLY, I do GIMPS instead.

sunmaker · #4 03-05-2007, 12:47 AM

I work with the project Einstein@home.. it's the biggest one after SETI@home. You should look into it.. much cooler than folding proteins IMO. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Siegmund · #5 03-05-2007, 02:21 AM

I remain loyal to the first distributed project I got involved with, GIMPS... though I admit I did temporarily do ZetaGrid for a while 2003ish.

Insp. Clue!So? · #6 03-05-2007, 02:23 AM

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Yeah, I run Einstein too, doing my part to search for gravity waves. From a distance the screen saver looks like the Death Star (it's actually a map of the constellations projected on a 3-D globe, with the Milky Way shunted off to one side).

I've never noticed any slowing whatsoever from these background programs. Can't say about SETI since I've never run it, but it's hard to imagine you'd have much problem with the larger projects.

findingneema · #7 03-09-2007, 01:32 AM

Folding@home is not the same software as SETI@home. I know a few people in the Pande lab (who runs it). If any of you are actually spending compute cycles on SETI@home, what a waste.

CORed · #8 03-09-2007, 02:51 AM

It depends on your settings. I run both seti and einstein, which both run on the BOINC platform You can set it to run all the time, which will slow other stuff down some, or you can set it to run only when your computer is idle, which won't.

jek187 · #9 03-14-2007, 02:20 AM

Just because there're only 9 CPUs still working, does that mean I can't be proud of 2nd?