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Folding@Home Client's Performance Impact Measured

Posted by timothy on from the drops-in-the-protein-bucket dept.

EconolineCrush writes "Trying to convince your boss to let you run Stanford's Folding@Home client on the machines at work? Here's an article that measures the performance impact of running the Folding@Home client that might help. The article examines the client's impact on the performance of business applications, games, workstation applications, and more. When set up correctly, the Folding@Home client can be run transparently in the background with only a negligible impact on system performance, which means your boss has one less reason to turn you down."

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  1. @home sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    use optimum online :-D

  2. Burnt Toast! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Im on fire!

  3. fp?jv? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    please!!!

  4. Low end system?! by SirCrashALot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did anyone realize there low-end system was an Athalon 1.2 ghz. Maybe I'm a bit behind, but I have a perfectly speedy 700 and a slightly slower 300 that I use everyday.

    1. Re:Low end system?! by natron+2.0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Hey I am right there with you. I run a 1 GHz and a 550 MHz daily.

      --
      [n8.r0n] http://petesweb.spymac.net/
    2. Re:Low end system?! by shaolin9 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      (2) p2 450 256Mb here...running win2k. at least its taught me to be a resource freak.

  5. Debian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am running Debian unstable and have been unable to get the binary to run. It promts me for my info and then segfaults. Anyone know what could be happening?

  6. wah fuckin wah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So exactly what the fuck are you whining about? That you're too cheap to have kept up with anyone else? No? Then what?

    Why don't you drink a nice tall glass of shut the fuck up? No one gives a slobbered knob what speed your systems run at.

  7. i hate those split-up articles by multiview · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    don't want to consume these fucked up articles with those annoying "split apart to make me view shitloads of ads" feature.

    stop it. don't link that crap.