Folding@Home Team Ubuntu recruiting notice

[nbcthreat]

If you're like a lot of folks on here you have a cutting-edge system that spends most of its time idling on a blank screen or running a cool screensaver. It's possibel to donate your spare cycles to cancer and other medical research using Folding@Home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_at_home

There are a couple of Ubuntu teams, but we're in the process of attempting to unify behind the team with the most points. Here's the link.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...&teamnum=45104

And here's the wiki page.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHom...=%28folding%29

Also, here's a great post on Hackaday about tips for competitive folding.

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000673058540/

Come join the team and have some competitive geeky fun while helping cure diseases! What could be better?

[erikpiper]

How well does it work with systems that have a (relatively) low uptime? As in, my nice machine is a dual booting gamer- can it start itself automatically? Any bugs?

[Zelut]

It can start itself automagally at boot on either side (Linux or Windows). I've got a personal team (24 machines) running on both platforms and I haven't seen any problems.

I'd join the team but I've already put so much work into my own team

[erikpiper]

Nice!
I would keep it off of my windows though, as when I boot into that it will be gaming only, then a reboot.

When I finish it, I will start folding.

(Windows induced reinstalls...)

[Swab]

Nice!
I would keep it off of my windows though, as when I boot into that it will be gaming only, then a reboot.

When I finish it, I will start folding.

(Windows induced reinstalls...)

It won't effect your Windows gaming as the client program only uses spare clock cycles.

[nbcthreat]

I believe it was Ars Technica that did a test and found that the WINDOWS client had almost literally zero effect on responsiveness. The only reason I don't run it while I'm working on my laptop at work is that it means that the laptop gets hot and the fan runs full-time which is annoying. I run it on everythine else.

[Enverex]

It won't effect your Windows gaming as the client program only uses spare clock cycles.

This isn't true, it doesn't affect ALL games, but it does adversely affect some. I remember (I was part of a big folding team) that it would slow down both GTA3 and Max Payne 2 quite considerably (but not the other games I was playing at the time). So it's something to keep an eye on.

Something else to remember if no-ones mentioned it already. If you run this on a laptop you'll max out the processor so you'll have it running at its hottest and most likely cause the fans to run at max the entire time, it will also cripple battery life unless you disable it on battery.

[slimdog360]

Its on the ps3 also

[Zonkle]

I'm in

[Swab]

We just entered the top 2000! Congratulations everyone...

And to everyone else... come join us, it's a good cause and promotes Ubuntu!