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So /g/, why are you not putting that underutilized CPU on your $2000 4chan machine to good use and do some motherfucking scientific computations?
>>53853854
I used to run Folding@Home but honestly after years of not seeing obvious positive results you become disenfranchised and ultimately stop running the programs. Plus the added heat/energy costs.
>>53853854
Why should I waste electricity computing for the kikes?
>>53853908
Pretty much this.
because i have the programs boinc uses, and use it for my own science
>>53853854
Because I'm participating in hunting Mersenne primes.
They also double as a stability tester if you contribute to their double testing.
I'm fine with helping science, but
I sure as shit ain't wasting my power bill paying for some stupid fucking company to use my computer
even if it is a pretty kick-ass computer
Because electricity is not free.
>>53853908
>>53854137
>>53855279
>>53855530
>the $150 electricity bill I'm going to save over the next 20 years will sure come handy when I'm dying from cancer
>I'm going to buy a $1000 gaymen PC to play vidya instead
Kek, enjoy being dead idiots.
What do you guys run?
My projects are
>ATLAS@home
>Einstein@home
>GPUgrid
>Rosetta@home
>SETI@home
>>53853854
You're supposed to do it in the winter to heat up your rooms in a much more productive way than simple electric heaters, not in the summer where you're already blasting the A/C or dying from heat
Holy shit OP will you ever stop being a dumbcunt?
>>53853854
literally a botnet
>>53853854
>/g shilling everyday to get rid of botnet
>OP comes in asking us to install botnet
>MFW i dont even know who to listen to anymore.
>Giving your processing power to cucks at MIT.
>Not blowing up your CPU mining for Wapajew gold.
>>53853854
Cos I live at the equator and it's hot all year round.
I unleash seti@home on my 290x. I have never seen a task take more than 15 minutes.
windows pleb here, how do i get this thing to use my gpu.
i have an r7-370.
>>53856598
you might as well not even bother cause they gonna be stuck with the task they assign you for a LOOOONG time.
>>53856608
dude, for science tho come on. cpu only is taking like 4 hours for an ATLAS task
any of the boinc projects actually have results yet?
>>53856618
if I leave my desktop on at night, I cant fucking sleep cause shit is so loud.
>>53856667
i can.
>>53856598
https://www.gpugrid.net/
>>53856245
WCG
>>53855899
>>the $150 electricity bill I'm going to save over the next 20 years
Try nearly $4000.
>berkeley
Not going to donate my CPU cycles to an institution that hates straight white men. Fuck them.
>>53856697
>https://www.gpugrid.net/
doesn't look like it works with amd cards??
>>53856714
It would be 6600 for me.
>tfw power is expensive as fuck here
>>53856716
b-b-black lives m-matter, anon !
>>53856716
Topkek
>use your idle computing power to help with our women studies
>>53856598
You have to enable it in the settings. You might also have to go into the project webpage and choose which tasks you want to run
>>53856618
Atlas is cpu only from what I've seen
>>53856738
Currently not , but they have beta in progress -https://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=3995
>>53856716
>muh sjws
>muh gaymergate
>why aren't you paying higher electrical bills so that some PhD can publish a paper or a pharmaceutical corporation can patent shit and make billions
>>53856857
It's fun being a cynical ass isn't it?
>>53856920
Who is cynical, me, or people making dough on drugs?
>>53853854
I used to do folding@home. I'm pretty sure it directly caused the death of 2 PSUs and a faulty motherboard
>>53855198
This. Don't become a stupid compute node, become smarter & do your own research, it's fun!
>>53856920
truth hurts huh anon
With contemporary energy saving features, it just doesn't make sense, especially with each task needing to be run at least twice. A project could get much more done if I gave them the $5 a month I'm not spending on electricity. The original idea behind distributed computing is that an idle computer consumes almost as much energy as a utilized one, but that's not how CPUs work now. It will make your sleeve bearing fans spin faster and get noisy sooner, and replacing them is a bit of a hassle.
I charge my phone from the solar charger stations in my town, and I run it on my old phone occasionally.
I don't do much but it makes me feel good.
>>53858153
That will accelerate your need for a new battery, which will worsen the world way more than your minuscule BOINC contributions help.
>>53858183
it's on my old phone, it's not like I'm doing much with it
>>53858291
I use mine as a motion-aware surveillance camera and webserver.
>>53853854
because cpu time costs actual money in electricity
that and my cpu isn't underutilised as it is
>>53855899
>$150 power bill
are you charged weekly?
>tfw can't use PS3 for BOINC anymore
I do though. I'm using my energy to research shit that should lower the cost of our energy bills and you should too.
http://cleanenergy.molecularspace.org/
Depending on what it is I also run a couple other worldcommunitygrid project through boinc. Usually medical stuff that takes hours not tens of hours. Medical stuff is a priority for sure but energy comes first, once we have a good way of generating energy we can worry about containing it and then utilizing it for all these other projects.
>>53856697
I'm not kidding, in the winter time I actually prefer to use gpugrid to heat my small bedroom than my house heating system. It serves a real purpose instead of just heating up metal and is probably cheaper since it's not heating the whole home.
>>53853854
>underutilized
idle
>>53853854
Because I'm running Tripcode Explorer.
