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Do you participate in folding@home?

Not necessarily Folding@Home, but I crunch for the TeAm. Currently doing rosetta@home. Both me and my wife crunch on our primary rigs, and we have a small (3 machine currently) crack rack in the garage.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
No. It's pretty pointless.
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As pointless as leaving a system on all the time, idling and doing nothing? It's terribly funny to me, all the people that bitch about Raptors, and how there is no real improvement because a person doesn't use their hd that much, blah blah blah. Yet there is a gang of people that OC their processors, yet hit maybe 50% usage in a game. What is the difference? My average CPu usage on all four logical processors is 100%, because of the DC (Distributed Computing) programs that are always running, unless I'm gaming or rendering, which isn't that often.

Just my $.02.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
No. It's pretty pointless.
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Yea, its pointless to utilize unused CPU cycles to help possibly find a cure for diseases. :roll:

Guess you don't approve of scientists trying to find a cure for cancer, AIDs, or any other disease either, huh?
 
Originally posted by: Abel007
Originally posted by: notfred
No. It's pretty pointless.
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Yea, its pointless to utilize unused CPU cycles to help possibly find a cure for diseases. :roll:

Guess you don't approve of scientists trying to find a cure for cancer, AIDs, or any other disease either, huh?
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I'm using it now, I wonder if it does anything, considering it's done by stanford, it's probobly real.
 
Sorry to be so cynical, but exactly how many diseases have this folding thing cured?

Ps. I work in an allergy/immunology lab where the real work's done. The only "folding" I've done w/ my computers was SETI 'cause I was interested in ET.
 
Originally posted by: Baked
Sorry to be so cynical, but exactly how many diseases have this folding thing cured?

Ps. I work in an allergy/immunology lab where the real work's done. The only "folding" I've done w/ my computers was SETI 'cause I was interested in ET.
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It may help, even if it didn't help cure anything yet, it may in the future.
 
I used to use it, but do not anymore. With single cores, it could cause troublesome blips in games.(This occurs on ALL single core machines that do not have HT, it is just miniscule and most people have not noticed it, I could go into detail if anyone wishes) It is possible that it will also do it on dual cores, but I have not tried it to see.

I would rather turn my pc off than let it sit being idle, so the idea that it is better than leaving your pc running idle does not work for me.
 
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