Folding @ Home SB Team

DJ December 10, 2015, 9:03pm 1

If you got the spare CPU cycles, this is pretty cool.

Team is just SB, passkey is “fuckvideogames”.

Mikey December 10, 2015, 9:11pm 2

I would like to semi-hijack this thread for a somewhat related project, wherein you look up historical climate data from the logbooks of old whaling/trading vessels and transcribe them:

http://www.oldweather.org/

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shrug December 10, 2015, 9:43pm 4

so hype

Ymer December 10, 2015, 11:51pm 5

Wait, didn’t PS3s use to be able to do it this? Can they still?

The_Blueberry_Hill December 11, 2015, 1:13am 6

Thanks for reminding me about these

(For a sortable list of active projects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects#Distributed_computing_projects )

Mikey December 11, 2015, 7:14am 7

You know this actually seems like something I could do with one of the spare computers I’ve got lying around. Just fire up a few distributed computing tasks and let 'er run

Iacus December 11, 2015, 10:38am 8

You can join many distributed computing projects easily by installing BOINC. Don’t overdo it, though. I burned a motherboard when I was leaving my computer running BOINC jobs every day

Mikey December 11, 2015, 10:07pm 9

Sounds like just the kind of Viking burial a computer deserves

DJ December 12, 2015, 1:41am 10

I just set FAH to run while the system is idle. My PC is on all the time anyway, so I figure those idle cycles might as well go to use because fuck cancer.

I actually checked to see if FAH actually does anything useful, and the answer I got from an oncology researcher was “Unequivocally, yes”. So I figure what the hell.

It does bring the temps on your CPU and GPU up a bit, though. I figure I’m going to need to replace both of these soon-ish anyway, so fuck it. Plus 80 isn’t THAT hot.