Basically, you download a program, it runs in the background using up only the computing power that you weren’t using anyway, and it indirectly helps scientists with medical research. Sounds like a pretty win-win type thing to me. So… anyone else on it? If there are more than, say, two of us, we could start an SDMB “team” which means we pool all our “points” together. Not that the points really matter.
I run the HPF client, except it’s the one from United Devices (http://www.grid.org). Same idea, as far as I can tell, just fewer letters. There may or may not already be a Straight Dope team, but I’m not on it.
I have a small (5 boxen) folding farm, but I use Folding@Home. I’m on the [H]ard|OCP team. It’s a great project now matter how you do it.
I have it running right now, and it says “Primary task is executing,” and I’ve been running it for 9 minutes now but it still says 0% completed.
What am I doing wrong?
Nothing, the work units are pretty big on my slowest box it can take a week or more to finish one. Wait an hour or two.
There is a Straight Dope group, started by yours truly in November or so. Search for Teeming Millions; I’m away from my own computer at the moment and can’t give you the link.