Folding @ home

[StarsMine]

I dont know how many of you guys already do BIONIC or WCG, or anything of the sort. However I do know all of you are gamers with at least a semi decent computer that you are not using all the time.
Why not put it to use to help solve health issues. Due to the work of F@H there is a drug candidate in the works for curing Alzheimer by preventing the misfolding of a beta peptide protein.
While I would not necessary recommend running this on a laptop due to heat problems, if you have well ventilated one give it a go.
http://folding.stanford.edu/



I myself for for team EVGA
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...hp?s=&u=555243
You can keep track of your points here. If you make yourself a name, or you can just run under anonymous and default teams.

If you are running SMP it helps to get a passcode so you can get quick return bonus for getting the work in quicker.\

I also find this page interesting.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...nUS1CdVE#gid=0
that everyone doing this is getting a combined 11 Pflops.

[ZERO]

Used to run this almost 24/7 but had to stop to eliminate it as one of the things possibly causing system crashes.

When I was at school in the winter I would run it on all the spare computers I have to provide heat in the winter.

[Steamer]

^
I like this.

[StarsMine]

yea turn off the heating in the room and used the money saved for the electricity cost of using the computer as a space heater. I want to see the price difference. even if the electricity cost is up there I can view it as donating to science/charity.

[ZERO]

The % of energy converted to heat for a physical heater should always be better as heat is a result of inefficient chip design not a goal as is the case with a physical heater. In my case only the room with the computers was heated (well it could have been but I also opened the windows). I kept the room temp around 55-60F and just kept a coat on.

[StarsMine]

You should be able to fold on AMD cards very easily in the near future