[tslug] Re: Folding@Home Effort
General Agreeance. In an attempt to overcome this problem, I have played with the cpu load I assign to the process, and have found ~ 85% to be an excellent balance of space warming and processing power, at least with my Athlon 2500. Weee. Nate On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:02:20 -0500, Peter Snoblin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin West wrote (Monday 13 September 2004 10:49 pm): > > To join in on the effort, all you have to do is download a small app > > that downloads a project, runs the emulation, sends the results back, > > and repeats. This is also run as a low priority process on your > > system, so you really don't even notice it is even running your CPU > > at 100% all the time. > > You (more than likely) won't notice any slowdown from it, but what you > *will* more than likely notice (at least something I noticed with my > systems) is a heat increase. Most modern processors scale back their > operation when they don't have data to crunch, thus generating less > heat. However, run them at 100% load all the time, and you'll (more > than likely) see an increase in dissapated heat. It was enough of an > effect to get me to stop doing such things. Though, if you can handle > the heat (no pun intended :-) ), [EMAIL PROTECTED] is, in my opinion at least, an > excellent project to support. > > -- > Peter Snoblin - http://entropicaccess.net/ > > > > - > To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with Subject: unsubscribe > - > > - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Folding@Home Effort
Justin West wrote (Monday 13 September 2004 10:49 pm): > To join in on the effort, all you have to do is download a small app > that downloads a project, runs the emulation, sends the results back, > and repeats. This is also run as a low priority process on your > system, so you really don't even notice it is even running your CPU > at 100% all the time. You (more than likely) won't notice any slowdown from it, but what you *will* more than likely notice (at least something I noticed with my systems) is a heat increase. Most modern processors scale back their operation when they don't have data to crunch, thus generating less heat. However, run them at 100% load all the time, and you'll (more than likely) see an increase in dissapated heat. It was enough of an effect to get me to stop doing such things. Though, if you can handle the heat (no pun intended :-) ), [EMAIL PROTECTED] is, in my opinion at least, an excellent project to support. -- Peter Snoblin - http://entropicaccess.net/ - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Folding@Home Effort
Or if you don't want to fold proteins, there's also GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. You look for really large prime numbers. If that doesn't excite you, then consider the fact that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is giving whoever finds the first prime number with more than 10 million digits $100,000 US. So head on over to www.mersenne.org for more info, or contact me :-) Raul! - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: Folding@Home Effort
This project really is worth it. There is actual science being done with the results of your donated cpu cycles: http://folding.stanford.edu/papers.html Nate - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
