Do Something Useful With Your CPU
Join the Stardock/WinCustomize.com Folding@Home team today!
Sunday, December 19, 2004 by GreenReaper | Discussion: Personal Computing
Does your computer sit there doing nothing most of the time? Worried that using a $1000 computer just for web-browsing is a bit wasteful? Are you thinking that SETI@Home or distributed.net may be fruitless endeavours? Well, you just might be interested in Folding@Home! Have your computer spend its time doing some useful calculations for medical research (see the FAQ) rather than letting those cycles go to waste, and download a client now!
I've made a Stardock/WinCustomize.com team - all you have to do is enter team ID number 41029 when asked by the Folding@Home client. And that's it! It will automatically get new blocks of work from the internet every so often and send results back, but you shouldn't have to touch it unless you want to. I chose to have it installed as a service, and the only way I know it's running is that CPU is at 100% or thereabouts all the time. It's all idle use, so it's not stealing the cycles from anything I want to run, and I have the satisfaction of knowing that my computer is working on something useful . . . even when I'm asleep. Give it a go!
I've made a Stardock/WinCustomize.com team - all you have to do is enter team ID number 41029 when asked by the Folding@Home client. And that's it! It will automatically get new blocks of work from the internet every so often and send results back, but you shouldn't have to touch it unless you want to. I chose to have it installed as a service, and the only way I know it's running is that CPU is at 100% or thereabouts all the time. It's all idle use, so it's not stealing the cycles from anything I want to run, and I have the satisfaction of knowing that my computer is working on something useful . . . even when I'm asleep. Give it a go!
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Aleatoric
Reply #22 Tuesday, December 21, 2004 10:26 AM 
I had worked with folding@home a while back, but after moving and rebuilding the PCs several times, it got lost in the shuffle. Thanks for the reminder!
Got it running on both of my primary boxes (one windows, one linux), both pretty fast machines.
Reply #22 Tuesday, December 21, 2004 10:26 AM
I had worked with folding@home a while back, but after moving and rebuilding the PCs several times, it got lost in the shuffle. Thanks for the reminder!
Got it running on both of my primary boxes (one windows, one linux), both pretty fast machines.
GreenReaper
Reply #23 Wednesday, December 22, 2004 7:51 AM
Reply #23 Wednesday, December 22, 2004 7:51 AM
It's getting busy on the team board - looks like I won't be at the top for long.
Well done everyone who's started running it, and for those who haven't, join up today!
Well done everyone who's started running it, and for those who haven't, join up today!
CalimeroQueen
Reply #24 Wednesday, December 22, 2004 5:06 PM
Reply #24 Wednesday, December 22, 2004 5:06 PM
Ok, my poor 1.4GHz needs circa 10 days to compute one WU... 
We just now need a F@H icon for our docks
And a docklet as the one for Seti wil also be fine !!
Thanks in advance to the community. I could try an icon if I had time but for the docklet...!
We just now need a F@H icon for our docks
And a docklet as the one for Seti wil also be fine !!
Thanks in advance to the community. I could try an icon if I had time but for the docklet...!
Essencay
Reply #25 Sunday, December 26, 2004 3:10 PM
Reply #25 Sunday, December 26, 2004 3:10 PM
BUMP....this really deserves to be seen again by folks
Go Team WinCustomize
Go Team WinCustomize
GreenReaper
Reply #26 Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:20 PM
Reply #26 Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:20 PM
We've just passed the 100-work-unit mark, and are close to 10000 points over at Folding@Home. Go Team WinCustomize!
Essencay
Reply #27 Thursday, December 30, 2004 2:26 AM
Reply #27 Thursday, December 30, 2004 2:26 AM
And we're closing in on being within the top ten percent of teams
GreenReaper
Reply #28 Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:37 PM
Reply #28 Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:37 PM
I just checked - the Stardock/WinCustomize team has reached rank 1111 of 37130 with 15 active contributors, well within the top 5% of teams. Let's hope it's not too long until we get into the first thousand! If you're just reading this now, please join up and help out. 
MikeB314
Reply #29 Sunday, March 27, 2005 7:37 PM
Reply #29 Sunday, March 27, 2005 7:37 PM
I must have missed this the first time around. I just signed up.
WebGizmos
Reply #30 Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:50 PM
Reply #30 Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:50 PM
I have a few nice Seti@home icons if anyone is interested. I forgot where I found them. If interested email me at msn.com and I'll send you the zip file...3 icons. 
Hazylunarrain
Reply #31 Monday, April 4, 2005 1:04 AM
Reply #31 Monday, April 4, 2005 1:04 AM
Just saw this, I'm gonna take a look, and if I like what I see you'll be seein hazylunarrain in the list soon One question though, I wonder... Do I HAVE to leave the comp all the time...>goes to read<
One question though, I wonder... Do I HAVE to leave the comp all the time...>goes to read<
Hazylunarrain
Reply #32 Monday, April 4, 2005 1:47 AM 
Ok, I'm in looks like this one will be done in 5 days. We're only 89 away from breaking 1,000. Keep it goin guys! (Or am I the only one doing this now?)
How we're doing:
Link
Reply #32 Monday, April 4, 2005 1:47 AM
Ok, I'm in looks like this one will be done in 5 days. We're only 89 away from breaking 1,000. Keep it goin guys! (Or am I the only one doing this now?) How we're doing:
Link
Hazylunarrain
Reply #34 Tuesday, April 5, 2005 1:13 AM
Reply #34 Tuesday, April 5, 2005 1:13 AM
hehe... Goes faster when the computers idling --DUH-- 
Probably be done about a day from now. Number one here we come!!
Probably be done about a day from now. Number one here we come!!
gfcentral002
Reply #36 Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:18 AM
Reply #36 Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:18 AM
i joined for the heck of it 
i have a hard time not messing w/ my computer lol but i always leave it on when i'm sleeping
i have a hard time not messing w/ my computer lol but i always leave it on when i'm sleeping
sunwukong
Reply #38 Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:54 PM
Reply #38 Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:54 PM
Ok -- I'm onboard 41029 w/ the research server. Be a few days before anything shows up, though.
CountStex
Reply #40 Friday, February 2, 2007 8:38 AM
Reply #40 Friday, February 2, 2007 8:38 AM
Do we have any kind of DesktopX control to monitor the log file and display at the very least the current % compleation?
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Reply #21 Tuesday, December 21, 2004 3:46 AM
And well done to Aleatoric, who has already completed two work units!