Do Something Useful With Your CPU

Join the Stardock/WinCustomize.com Folding@Home team today!

Published on December 19, 2004 By GreenReaper In Personal Computing

Does your computer sit there doing nothing most of the time? Worried that using a $1000 computer just for web-browsing is a bit wasteful? Are you thinking that SETI@Home or distributed.net may be fruitless endeavours? Well, you just might be interested in Folding@Home! Have your computer spend its time doing some useful calculations for medical research (see the FAQ) rather than letting those cycles go to waste, and download a client now!

I've made a Stardock/WinCustomize.com team - all you have to do is enter team ID number 41029 when asked by the Folding@Home client. And that's it! It will automatically get new blocks of work from the internet every so often and send results back, but you shouldn't have to touch it unless you want to. I chose to have it installed as a service, and the only way I know it's running is that CPU is at 100% or thereabouts all the time. It's all idle use, so it's not stealing the cycles from anything I want to run, and I have the satisfaction of knowing that my computer is working on something useful . . . even when I'm asleep. Give it a go!

Comments (Page 3)

Hazylunarrain

on Apr 04, 2005

Just saw this, I'm gonna take a look, and if I like what I see you'll be seein hazylunarrain in the list soon

One question though, I wonder... Do I HAVE to leave the comp all the time...>goes to read<

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Hazylunarrain

on Apr 04, 2005

Ok, I'm in looks like this one will be done in 5 days. We're only 89 away from breaking 1,000. Keep it goin guys! (Or am I the only one doing this now?)

How we're doing:

Link

GreenReaper

on Apr 04, 2005

It's getting closer . . . 83 now.

Hazylunarrain

on Apr 05, 2005

hehe... Goes faster when the computers idling --DUH--

Probably be done about a day from now. Number one here we come!!

Snowman

on Oct 26, 2005

*AATCHUUUUuuu*

ups, sorry about that....

gfcentral002

on Oct 27, 2005

i joined for the heck of it

i have a hard time not messing w/ my computer lol but i always leave it on when i'm sleeping

GreenReaper

on Oct 27, 2005

Thanks.

sunwukong

on Oct 27, 2005

Ok -- I'm onboard 41029 w/ the research server. Be a few days before anything shows up, though.

Snowman

on Oct 28, 2005

Eggsellent

CountStex

on Feb 02, 2007

Do we have any kind of DesktopX control to monitor the log file and display at the very least the current % compleation?

GreenReaper

on Feb 02, 2007

Not that I know of. You're welcome to make one - it probably wouldn't be that hard, though you'd likely have to poll than rely on modification notifications. There may be other ways than reading the log, but I'm not aware of them.

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