Folding Forum

It's the guilt! I have to keep my HTPC off folding (GPU & SMP) for the summer (no AC, in a cabinet = sizzle time) and every time I check to see how I'm doing, I think of what was lost... At least when cooler temps arrive, and folding ramped back up again, I'll be reducing my carbon footprint (el...

And in the long term, without trying to find a cure to these disease, one wonders just how much massive the long term carbon footprint will be due to these diseases, let alone the personal and societal costs...

" Stats update in progress External access to the Folding@home stats server is currently not available in order to expedite the stats input process. We expect this to take about 45 minutes. " Is it possible (and what would the impact be - e.g. reduce # times to update per day) that while t...

I use the team page list with all the team members (not the one with just the first 1000 members) - that is very important, but for my purposes, updating it once a day would be all I need. As for the project numbers & WU completed - I've very rarely checked what projects I've done (haven't for o...

With regards to environmental cost, I had noted in the past a few items: - in winter, the cost is minimal as the energy used turns into heat. - the environmental cost (let alone other costs like the societal costs and financial burden) of these diseases is significant - can always trade cost (e.g. c...

Back to the original topic; some arguments I've been given -my electricity bill will skyrocket (despite the fact that the person in question's computer is left running idle most of the day and indeed night anyway) -it's pointless, they won't solve cancer without lab work (answer: project's aims are...

great!
Give up a heads up if the old forum data will overwrite this one.