Re: [Evolver] Off Topic: Folding@home
2002-12-28 by Ravi Ivan Sharma
And just in case you are still worried about folding@home potentially slowing down your
computer (I have been running heavy audio music applications with no problems
for days now) TechReport
has published a bunch of tests to
show it doesn't impact your productivity at all:
"The results of our testing couldn't be clearer, at least for the
systems we've tested today. Quite simply, the impact of running Folding@Home in
the background is negligible. Even the most discerning users won't notice it."
"With the results we've seen here, one more exuse for not donating excess CPU time to the Folding@Home project is gone. Whether you're playing games, encoding media files, surfing the web, slaving away in a cubicle at work, or mumbling to your computer, running the Folding@Home client won't slow you down. "
So go get it: http://folding.stanford.edu/ and
join team # 13031
Ravi
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----- Original Message -----From: Ravi Ivan SharmaTo: xl7@yahoogroups.com ; TOFuk@yahoogroups.com ; sarshasha@yahoogroups.com ; MC-909@yahoogroups.com ; mc505@yahoogroups.com ; DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.comSent: Friday, December 27, 2002 6:45 PMSubject: [Evolver] Off Topic: Folding@homeHey,So did I ever tell you about folding@home?For those of you that have broadband connections to the internet, and especially if like me you leave your computer on all the time (and even if you don't), you can do a lot of good in the quest to disover medicine and such by downloading and running the folding@home program.Basically it is "distributed computing" i.e. a ton of computers work on number-crunching data and reupload the work to the main server at Standford university. (There was Seti@home which was a search of extraterrestrial life--but in my opinion, we are better off helping the here and now).So you run the program and it is always going whenever your computer is on. It doens't interefere with your computing "power" because it is set to only take up idle cpu cycles and at the lowest priority, so basically you don't even know its there and your computer runs just as fast. But at all times, when you are doing not much (like reading this email) it is churning away, crunching numbers and you are contributing to a worthy science.We have set up a team and when you configure it upon install, enter your name (or moniker) and also enter in team# 13031. It is just for fun to have teams and you can see where you stand in relation to the others that you know on the team. It is fun. SO do it!Download the program here:And don't forget, join team# 13031 !!Thanks,Ravi
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