I've been donating cycles to United Devices in the cancer research for the last 3 years +. Is this one better?
Many of our members run distributed computing for other groups, such as BOINC and GRID. Usually we will dedicate a system to each and find a FReeper team to add our numbers to.
F@H is my personal favorite, having started back in the mid-90's with Genome@Home. Just did not think that SETI was very practical as I understood it better.
F@H is dedicated to more pure research than many of the other programs out there, and the results are manifested in over 40 major research papers. Is F@H better than United Devices? No, just another part of the research pie that we support.
If you are on a FReeper team with United Devices let us know. I can create a quick post to advertize that FReeper group.
Please feel free to join us if you have an extra CPU to use!
One thing that I like about F@H is their new use of ATI X1900 video cards to boost performance of protein folding. The program uses the 48 pixel shaders to boost folding power by up to 40 times.
Don't have an X1900 yet, but I am saving aluminum cans for Christmas.