I mentioned in another post that I've spun up my Folding@home hardware to take on some COVID-19 related work units. While I am very well into FAH on the DSLReports.com Team Helix team, I'm curious if folks here would be interested in joining a Landzdown.com team?
Folding@home is a distributed computing project. Folks voluntarily donate hardware (computer processor and/or graphics card processor) to taking on parts of projects related to particular protein studies. These project pieces, called Work Units, are what are handed out to volunteers. For example, I have three graphics cards and two CPUs working on Work Units right now. When these WUs are done, the results are uploaded back to Folding@home, and my hardware waits for new WU assignments. If you're curious, I have two GTX 960s, one GTX 970, an Intel i7-6700K, and an Intel i7-5960X running this right now. Yes, they really warm up the place.
I wouldn't recommend running this on laptops - working on WUs generally means running your hardware at 100%, and laptops won't adequately cool under a continuous full workload. You also don't have to run this 100% of the time - you can set it to only work on things while your computer would typically be idle, and when you come back and start using it again the work will pause until things are idle again.
There's info about the project at
https://foldingathome.org/. I'm happy to answer questions about Folding@home, and if there's interest from folks here to jump in on the project, I can set up a team so we can see how we're contributing. Again, I've been with the DSLReports.com Team Helix team for many years, so I won't be moving away from there, but I'm happy to set up a team for here and help out.
Use the poll over the next 14 days to let me know if you'd be interested. If there's a good showing, I'll work to make this happen.
