Do Something Useful With Your CPU

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

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! :CONGRAT:
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I knew they had this for the Mac, did not realize they had it for windows.  Thanks.  Just downloaded and I will join 41029
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Joined as well... (How do you go about getting your name listed as a team member on the stats page ?).

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Once your computer submits a work unit and it updates the stats page, it will show you. This may take some time (a block gets done in about a day here).
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I'll be folding!
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They have it for everything! (almost )
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Folding away here too
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Great . . . all we need is everyone who visits WC to sign up and we can almost have real-time folding!
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Sorry, my cpu is busy processing 2390 snowflakes

ok, ok, I'll cut back to 250 flakes
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In theory the flakes should come first . . . it is Christmas, after all!
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I was doing Seti@home before I discovered my Athlon 64 comes with a Cool'n'quiet thing and before it was sitting there for a week without doing a thing because Seti ran out or units to compute.

With this little program here:
Link
You can help saving Amozon forest... a bit... or conserve the world oil supplies... a bit...

unfortunately it will not work well with SETI@home since it will drop the power consumption only when the CPU usage is low and Seti@home makes it... well... not low.
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But with Folding@Home you can help the process of genetically engineering new forests!
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ONe caveat tho.  We lost our broadband last night, and the screen saver does not cut on for some reason.  Cable says we should have it back some time today tho.
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I like how when you go to the team page they put a new little folding factoid in each day
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Joined also.
Seems a lot of people joined but still only you GreenReaper in the team roster.
I think we first have to upload a result to be effectively in the team.
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Yes, it usually takes at least half a day to do a work unit (I only have 6!) and a day to update the stats . . . but don't worry, you will be counted.
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And not to forget grid.org http://www.grid.org/home.htm
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will join when i have time ... bell rang lol
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I was given a fairly large thingy to process, has been going for 24 hours (at least 12hrs with 100% cpu) and I've only done 40% of 1 WU

3.2Ghz cpu
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Oh heck, why not?

+200mhz from the above.
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That's OK; the longer it takes, the more points you get for the work unit. It balances out.

And well done to Aleatoric, who has already completed two work units!
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I had worked with folding@home a while back, but after moving and rebuilding the PCs several times, it got lost in the shuffle. Thanks for the reminder!

Got it running on both of my primary boxes (one windows, one linux), both pretty fast machines.
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It's getting busy on the team board - looks like I won't be at the top for long.

Well done everyone who's started running it, and for those who haven't, join up today!
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Ok, my poor 1.4GHz needs circa 10 days to compute one WU...
We just now need a F@H icon for our docks

And a docklet as the one for Seti wil also be fine !!
Thanks in advance to the community. I could try an icon if I had time but for the docklet...!
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BUMP....this really deserves to be seen again by folks

Go Team WinCustomize