Hey, just so you know ... this post is now about 15 years and 10 months old. Please keep that in mind as it very well may contain broken links and/or outdated information.I found this interesting article via slashdot that explains the science behind the Folding at Home project.
I folded my first workunit almost two years ago on June 19, 2007. Since then I’ve contributed about 580 additional WUs by running the F@H client on my various PCs and servers at home (you can see some of my stats at the bottom of my sidebar over to the right).
Back in the day I used to contribute my spare CPU cycles to the SETI@Home project, but I switched. Don’t get me wrong I still think finding alien life would be cool, but folding proteins seems like a nobler, more pressing cause for the time being.
After almost 6 years, 3,741 work units, and 847,223 points, I’ve decided to stop Folding@Home. I was starting to have more and more “Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x79” problems on my Linux server and finally decided it wasn’t worth the effort or CPU cycles anymore.