Lend your spare CPU power to a good cause!

[afghooey]

I did a search for this, and was surprised nothing came up.

Does anyone here use Folding@Home? For those who don't know about it, it's a project that studies the way that proteins fold (or misfold), and the way misfolded proteins attribute to diseases like Huntington's, Alzheimer's and cancer.

Protein folding is incredibly complex, so complex that it would take years of computing time to simulate one protein's folding process on a single machine. The founders of the project have come up with a way for people like you and me to donate our idle processor power to solving these calculations, creating a virtual supercomputer that vastly speeds up the process.

The program (Available for Windows, MAC OS X and Linux) can be found here, along with all kinds of info on the project:

Folding@Home Distributed Computing (http://folding.stanford.edu/)

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[affasd]

wierd, i think my biology teacher showed us this shit a couple yrs ago

[slipknotpsycho]

i've heard of it from forums.devhardware.com

[Inferius]

and the answer is.... 42?

[Skrappie]

Thanks for the link, I joined the team.

Everyone should hep out if they can.

[afghooey]

Thanks to those who have joined. :thumbsup:

[slipknotpsycho]

i'll only join if i get my questions answered (and if they'r eanswered and wrong i'll de-join) i have no problem lending spare cpu power.. espeically for such a thing, but i don't want that to affect my everyday computer life... i bought the pc for me to use lol, not for some program to eat up, leaving me with a slower comp then i ever had...

so does it affect your comps speed? (bf2 is a memory devourer..) and 2nd, is it at al difficult to get going?

if the answers are no and no, i'll gladly lend the help... but i'm not gonna put myself outta a 1,000+ pc (not including monitor) to contribute to something i know many are already offering.

[InsomniaBomber420]

yeah I dload way to much shit everyday to have my comp getting slow but I do have highspeed dsl so if it doesnt use more than a little bit of my comps speed Ill join

[afghooey]

There are options to let you choose how much of your CPU power is used, but by default it just uses your idle power (whatever you're not using with other stuff). My computer is pretty ancient, and it hasn't made a noticeable difference in performance.

Also, it's really easy to set up. If I can do it, anyone can.

[slipknotpsycho]

k, joined and running.

[afghooey]

Thanks dude. :3

[slipknotpsycho]

lol it's actually kinda intresting to watch it work... like a screen saver or something...

[Dr.Hashman]

Dr. H is in!

[afghooey]

There's a screen saver option. :) Right click on the console and hit "Configure" and then the "Display" tab.