"Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease."
English translation: Hay guys, run our screen saver and help cure nasty shit like Alzheimer's. Also compare your internet penis size with other communities.
Team 4-ch: http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=42861
Our forefathers: http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=162
4chan/world4ch lacks a team (unless it's named something less then obvious), someone can post there if they want.
Start folding, and maybe someday W.T.Snacks will not be filled with AIDS.
HT: Interesting. Unfortunately, the forums seem to be swamped by only-somewhat-coherent people who are aggressively pursuing the most points-per-day and producing conspiracy theories about why people are trying to stop them. Yeesh, I just fire it up and tell it how I would like it to work.
I can definitely see why HT would be slower though. The way it works at the moment, it "looks" like 2x1.5GHz CPUs, when it's really a 1x3GHz. HT will be slower due to context switching between the two. I'll try turning HT off, and if XP doesn't puke at the sudden loss of a CPU, I'll leave it that way.
Sixth: I swear I haven't built another PC recently! Uguu~
RAM: Yeah, but did you receive them with new computers recently? My point was "Only 256 RAM (and in 2x128 sticks, no less!) in a new OEM machine? What a jip!".
Power bill: Well, realistically, I don't expect they actually use that much power at all. New CPUs are measured by tech report sites, and figures indicate a couple hundred watts at the wall socket for the system case. Mine are nowehre near that. They're specifically "servers on a shoestring", so they're not top of the line CPUs. They're on microATX motherboards, and not a lot of peripherals being powered at all. They all run headless, so there's no CRT to turn power into heat. I'd hazard a guess that they're comparable to running a few light globes.
>a guess that they're comparable to running a few light globes.
Unlike my mac mini here, which would sit on no more than 20W idle. Add that with my monitor which sits at 40W idle, and my computer is essentially chewing one single lightbulb's power. Interesting, because all the bulbs in my house are at least 75W.