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This is obviously being quite heavily promoted at the moment.
The background is that Stanford University School of Medicine in the States setup folding@home in the early 2000's. It's a distributed computing project that shares resources from the customers computer which they're not using such as CPU and GPU power. It runs in the background and won't affect the user in anyway, it only takes resources that aren't being utilised. You can set it to be running whilst you're using the computer, or only when it's not being used.
This power is then utilised by the university to run protein folding simulations to work out cures for various viruses. The more resources they have, the quicker they're able to run the simulations and hopefully find a cure. Obviously at the moment, this is quite a valuable resource if you feel open to joining.
It's fully legit and you can remain fully anonymous, or create an account in which case you build up points (although I'm not sure what these can be used for).
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I've installed it on all the PC's in the house and other than increased fans on my laptop (because I've set mine to use as much spare resource as possible, highest setting), you wouldn't know it's running.
If you've got any kind of thermal issues, I'd suggest only running it on Low setting.
This is obviously being quite heavily promoted at the moment.
The background is that Stanford University School of Medicine in the States setup folding@home in the early 2000's. It's a distributed computing project that shares resources from the customers computer which they're not using such as CPU and GPU power. It runs in the background and won't affect the user in anyway, it only takes resources that aren't being utilised. You can set it to be running whilst you're using the computer, or only when it's not being used.
This power is then utilised by the university to run protein folding simulations to work out cures for various viruses. The more resources they have, the quicker they're able to run the simulations and hopefully find a cure. Obviously at the moment, this is quite a valuable resource if you feel open to joining.
It's fully legit and you can remain fully anonymous, or create an account in which case you build up points (although I'm not sure what these can be used for).
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I've installed it on all the PC's in the house and other than increased fans on my laptop (because I've set mine to use as much spare resource as possible, highest setting), you wouldn't know it's running.
If you've got any kind of thermal issues, I'd suggest only running it on Low setting.
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