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Do Something Useful With Your CPU

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

from JoeUser Forums
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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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
We've just passed the 100-work-unit mark, and are close to 10000 points over at Folding@Home. Go Team WinCustomize!
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
And we're closing in on being within the top ten percent of teams
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just checked - the Stardock/WinCustomize team has reached rank 1111 of 37130 with 15 active contributors, well within the top 5% of teams. Let's hope it's not too long until we get into the first thousand! If you're just reading this now, please join up and help out.
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I must have missed this the first time around. I just signed up.
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have a few nice Seti@home icons if anyone is interested. I forgot where I found them. If interested email me at msn.com and I'll send you the zip file...3 icons.
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Just saw this, I'm gonna take a look, and if I like what I see you'll be seein hazylunarrain in the list soon One question though, I wonder... Do I HAVE to leave the comp all the time...>goes to read<

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Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok, I'm in looks like this one will be done in 5 days. We're only 89 away from breaking 1,000. Keep it goin guys! (Or am I the only one doing this now?)



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Reply #33 from Stardock Forums Top
It's getting closer . . . 83 now.
Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hehe... Goes faster when the computers idling --DUH--
Probably be done about a day from now. Number one here we come!!
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top

*AATCHUUUUuuu*

ups, sorry about that....

Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i joined for the heck of it i have a hard time not messing w/ my computer lol but i always leave it on when i'm sleeping
Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks.
Reply #38 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ok -- I'm onboard 41029 w/ the research server. Be a few days before anything shows up, though.
Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Eggsellent
Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Do we have any kind of DesktopX control to monitor the log file and display at the very least the current % compleation?
Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not that I know of. You're welcome to make one - it probably wouldn't be that hard, though you'd likely have to poll than rely on modification notifications. There may be other ways than reading the log, but I'm not aware of them.