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Support research vs. corona by donating computation time to Folding@home?

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dex: lol! i can understand someone who first hears about the project being skeptic of the CPU+GPU power actually helping research and/or if that research will actually be useful in an immediate form (it most probably won't). you could have read up on the project itself and educate yourself a bit more on who is behind it and what they're working on (it's not just corona). and if you don't think the project is worth your extra CPU+GPU you can always just ignore it, or go back to letting it idle, or mining cryptocurrency, or whatever. no one is forcing you to use it or believe in it, we're just mentioning it's out there and people can contribute if they want. but clearly it's much easier for you to just be an ass and insult other peoples beliefs. projecting your frustrations about the pandemic much?
added on the 2020-03-24 06:59:11 by psenough psenough
wysiwtf: it might not solve anything in immediate terms, but it'll still likely help research going forward. if you don't want to waste your CPU+GPU on it, you're in your right, don't bother with it.
added on the 2020-03-24 07:02:47 by psenough psenough
Wow!
Team Ranking 2.827 of 243.946 !


Date of last work unit 2020-03-27 07:06:55
Active CPUs within 50 days 105
Team Id 238966
Grand Score 13,143,697
Work Unit Count 736
Team Ranking 2827 of 243946
added on the 2020-03-27 08:13:27 by _docd^hjb _docd^hjb
Let's hit the top 1k then. I wanted to buy AMD hardware anyways for being able to fix the crashes in our shaders on gargaj's hardware *g
added on the 2020-03-27 16:28:28 by NR4 NR4
Withdrawing my support. Here's why:

The ongoing bioweapons cold war between superpowers is yet again a game that can have no winners. I am opposed to further fan that fire with my teraflops. F@H compute is not a peanut, it has reached exascale.

The upcoming 2 exaflops El Capitan machine is intended primarily for what? Yes, weapons research with the NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration).

Meanwhile, they try to break end-to-end encryption once more with the EARN IT act.

Just my two cents. You must do what you think is right, of course.

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added on the 2020-03-28 11:48:51 by zstab zstab
Ima use my CPU to mine minecraft blocks
added on the 2020-03-28 12:52:40 by Optimus Optimus
here is my production of 3d printed face shields, already 200 dispatched around my town to local hospital, liberal nurses, etc...
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added on the 2020-04-15 11:48:28 by Xyl2k Xyl2k
what are liberal nurses?
added on the 2020-04-15 15:15:36 by rutra80 rutra80
private sector nurse or independent nurse, not sure how do you says that properly.
added on the 2020-04-15 15:44:33 by Xyl2k Xyl2k
Team deinetickets.de stats tell me, we are now on rank 1713 of 250579 and hit the 50 M points!
Nice =) thanks for all your effort. This is cool :)
added on the 2020-04-15 16:24:29 by NR4 NR4
100M achievement, after almost one year of folding
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gpus go brrr
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added on the 2021-01-16 10:04:13 by Xyl2k Xyl2k
hyper nice! congrats :) also this is a really nice rig, is it a miner or did you build it for donating to f@h?
added on the 2021-01-16 13:26:05 by NR4 NR4
Yeah it's originaly a miner, i've built it in 2018, it used to mine ethereum and monero for arround 1 year, then did a bit of hashs cracking for arround one year too, and now it just do folding for science, soon one year too.
Those gpus are robust, my electricity bill too :)
added on the 2021-01-16 20:26:49 by Xyl2k Xyl2k
I see some physical bitcoins next to the PSU there :) I read that the mining of cryptocurrency is rising to become an environmental problem so it's good that you've taken your rig out that madness.
added on the 2021-01-17 10:27:33 by El Topo El Topo
at some point, I think @home should start mining bitcoins using those shared computers
and use bitcoin money to hire real people and invest in education
added on the 2021-01-17 17:51:47 by Danilw Danilw
ah the good old story of generating money out of (polluted) air...
i just hope greta visits every single of you bitcoin idiots to punch directly into your dumb face.
added on the 2021-01-19 10:13:09 by xeNusion xeNusion
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ah the good old story of generating money out of (polluted) air...
i just hope greta visits every single of you bitcoin idiots to punch directly into your dumb face.

oh no "we have to save energy" bullshit

energy can not be "saved" it already produced and Power station generates electricity base on statistical usage of electricity, oil/coal/nuclear fuel already spend, and lots of heat from Power station already in air...

not using produced electricity is just stupid, its literally burning resources
added on the 2021-01-20 18:50:30 by Danilw Danilw
wat
added on the 2021-01-20 19:01:33 by kb_ kb_
I will not reply to this logical fallacy.
added on the 2021-01-20 19:14:23 by El Topo El Topo
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I will not reply to this logical fallacy.


well that didn't work out so well
added on the 2021-01-20 19:58:52 by skrebbel skrebbel
how quickly this thread escalated from "let's combine our enormous loads of hardware and make a difference fighting this fcking plague" to "Greta punches NR4 in the face" :P I hope she doesn't. Even though my hardware consumes a lot of power when rendering offensive high-end demos.
added on the 2021-01-20 20:21:26 by NR4 NR4
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well that didn't work out so well


I'm still not replying to it :)
added on the 2021-01-20 22:16:18 by El Topo El Topo

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