Altruistic reasons and/or bragging rights?
Edit: To elaborate, I remember when folding first became a thing, what, a decade or more ago? But I never bothered to get involved.
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The last time I folded was around when they started to support GPU folding, and that GPU died in about a year, so I stopped doing it. Maybe it was just a coincidence but that card died much faster than any graphics card I've ever had (before or since).
Are there any recent science papers from Folding@home? I can't find any since 2014 and that concerns me. https://folding.stanford.edu/home/papers
The net benefits of distributed computing have always been questionable in my opinion.
DrCR wrote:It makes geeks feel like they're doing something productive. They're not, but it makes them feel that way.Altruistic reasons and/or bragging rights?
Edit: To elaborate, I remember when folding first became a thing, what, a decade or more ago? But I never bothered to get involved.
Duct Tape Dude wrote:Are there any recent science papers from Folding@home? I can't find any since 2014 and that concerns me. https://folding.stanford.edu/home/papers
I have been lending my CPU time instead to https://worldcommunitygrid.org which rotates through various projects (some of which involve protein folding). I don't know if it's any better, but I feel like the spread is much wider and the projects are actively maintained, updated, and reported on. https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/a ... &pageNum=1
whm1974 wrote:I strongly disagree.
MarkG509 wrote:I had a PS3 that came with Folding at Home preinstalled. I let it run it for a few days - it got pretty hot. Stopped it to do a business trip and never went back to it. IIRC, later versions of the firmware removed that app at about the same time they removed the ability to boot Linux on it.