Everyone who’s running Seti@home, and everyone who’s not, please check out this newest distributed computing project. It’s called folding@home and runs protein folding computations during your system idle time or as a screen saver.
As it stands, the Seti@home project is targeted to end later this year (IIRC) so I’m going to drop out of Seti@home to focus on Folding@home.
I’m running a Athlon 1.2g 512m, so I figure I should absolutely tear through these.
I can’t wait to see all you guys join up and start helping out medical research! We could even form a team.
HA! I made reference to this very thing (Folding@Home) a while back (someone posted about SETI, and others chimed in about using United Whatever, which sells out CPU cycles to the highest bidder, under the pretense of curing cancer). No one seemed to care then, either.
As for a team, I’m with ya Homer! I’ve currently got 1.2GHz Athlon myself, and I know that even on a 350MHz, I was able to crank through them relatively quickly.
Seti@Home was sweet for a while, but I’ve put in over 4000 hours and not found any spoon-heads from Alpha Centauri yet, so I think Folding@home deserves my attention now. MORE PEOPLE EH!