MetaChat - Do you donate your spare CPU time?

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02 April 2006

Do you donate your spare CPU time? If so, to which service? Why did you choose that service?→[More:]I was kind of scared off it a few years back when I was running SETI@Home on an admittedly poorly-cooled PC and it burned out my processor, but my new, ultrafast, well-ventilated computer is up a lot of the time doing absolutely nothing, and I'm considering putting that downtime to good use. I've heard of SETI and Folding@Home; are there others?

post by: mike9322 at: 13:41 | 7 comments

Try here.

posted by puke & cry 02 April | 13:47

Wow, so there's one or two other ones out there, huh?

posted by mike9322 02 April | 13:52

World Community Grid is an option.

posted by cmonkey 02 April | 14:26

I don't use any of them though. I used to participate in one but I've long since forgotten which one. I'm selfish.

posted by puke & cry 02 April | 14:39

I figure that there are more efficient and powerful computers than my really noisy one such that the environmental savings of not participating outweigh any potential contribution my computer may have made to those discoveries and their implications by a purely statistical measure.

(hey, it sounds better than that I'm selfish)

posted by porpoise 02 April | 14:56

I do climateprediction.net. I used to do Folding@Home.

posted by matildaben 02 April | 16:49

used to do seti@home. i'm currently running electric sheep... mostly because my daughter likes voting on the pretty ones, but also because i thought i'd be a fun way to learn about distributed computing and assorted periphery... optics, complex geometry, etc.

when i get around to it, i'll probably install folding@home or the CERN one.

posted by Wedge 02 April | 19:13

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