Folding Forum

That's fair - my #2 point could go either way. As for asking about the audience, I was just thinking that at some points the current summary strays from aiming to reach executive types. No offense to the person(s) who wrote the current exec summary - I think they did a wonderful job - but tone-and-t...

1) "Folding@Home is based at Stanford University and Stanford University Medical School and is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation" Should that be National Institute of Health? Or are there more than one institutes involved in the funding? 2) &qu...

Hi all, I've started folding again after a few months of stopping it. The good news is I now have a brand new hexa-core which I am folding on! Yay! Anyway, I was reading the executive summary pdf and noticed that it has several spelling errors (2-3 that I recall). I think the idea of the exec summar...

Thanks for the replies; definitely food for thought. Someone had mentioned about a tax break through recycling them; I didn't know I could get a tax break this way! Does anyone know what I need to do for this? As for the PIIIs and PIVs, for now I might set a few up and run 'em just to contrib some p...

@7im, I'm not worried about the electricity costs, as I my utilities are included in rent. Right now, I don't have the capital to buy a newer pc. However, I'm not limiting this farm to certain types of pcs. So, when I do get some extra cash, and can buy a newer pc, I'll definitely get one to add to ...

Hi, I'm trying to set up a folding farm with older PCs/Macs. When I say older cpus, I mean early PIVs, PIIIs, perhaps PIIs and PIs, and their Mac equivalents. In regard to hardware and network setup, I plan to put linux distros on the comps I get, and set some up as terminals (using LTSP) if they do...