Folding @ Home

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by rdouglass:
Thermo,

Currently giving spare cycles to SETI@home project. I have almost 25K WU's! (Used to see you there - you zoomed by my stats then dissapeared about a year ago from submitting new WU's).

Can you tell me why I should switch? Not looking to start anything - just looking to see if this one is better.

In fact, I think that any machine that has any idle time at all (while it's powered on) should run some kind of "public service" process. It doesn't cost the CPU owner anything (in the vast majority of cases) and helps out good causes...

Hey rdouglass, it’s been a while since I was chasing you down I set a goal of 10K units in seti and when I got there I quit. Well, I ran over a little. Actually, it was too easy and I got bored. Folding is a little harder, but not a lot. Four weeks has gotten me into the top 4% using the same systems I was using on seti.

As to why I started folding, it was because of the other people on the team. I net/know most of them and it was kind of sporty at first. No challengers of late. As to why you should join, there is no good reason. Both projects are raw science and distributed computing is more or less the same everywhere. One thing you won’t see with folding is the problems, cheats, and other BS. If you did join up, then perhaps you could give me a run for my money Better hurry, FX51 goes on line this weekend.

[ November 13, 2003, 18:07: Message edited by: Thermodyne ]