[exDemMom]

As it turns out, I have been allowing my computer to be used for several projects, including smallpox research, cancer research, and currently, it is working on protein folding.

Go to the site grid.org and you can become part of this project.

I have been doing this for about 2 years, for a total of 111 days of CPU time (I only have my computer on 2 to 4 hours a day). You don't notice any difference in the performance of the machine.

[ROTB]

Unless you use a hyperthreaded box, the software can't tell it's nopt two processors.

[NCSteve]

Pretty cool, huh?

I had folding@home and SETI@home running on my Linux Beowulf cluster for a while until I shut it down. I couldn't deal with the $150 per month power bills. That didn't have anything to do with SETI or folding, it had to do with eight Pentium-II and Pentium-III class machines running 24/7. I had a little over one year of CPU time on SETI and I had finished 35 work units on folding. I may have to fire up the cluster again and run some Einstein@home for a while.