{"id":515,"date":"2003-02-25T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2003-02-25T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/02\/25\/2-25-03\/"},"modified":"2006-04-03T23:45:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T07:45:33","slug":"the-latest-distributed-computing-venture-foldinghome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/25\/the-latest-distributed-computing-venture-foldinghome\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest distributed computing venture, Folding@Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest distributed computing venture: <a href=\"http:\/\/toolbar.google.com\/dc\/aboutdc.html\">Folding@Home via Google Compute<\/a>. First, <a href=\"http:\/\/toolbar.google.com\/\">get the Google Toolbar<\/a>. It&#8217;s good. Then install the compute thingie from my link (google doesn&#8217;t publicize the Compute link. I think that&#8217;s because the Folding venture has already gotten pretty much enough recruits. Hehe. The Google team is more than 1\/2 of Folding&#8217;s distributed client base!<\/p>\n<p>I now run both <a href=\"http:\/\/setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu\/stats\/team\/team_22537.html\">Seti@Home<\/a> and Google Compute. I found that Seti sometimes slows down my tasks&#8230; a 1\/2 second pause here and there. It&#8217;s nothing big but a little bother. So I run Seti in screen-saver-only mode. I haven&#8217;t ever had any performance problems with Folding, so I let it run all the time. Like right now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest distributed computing venture: Folding@Home via Google Compute. First, get the Google Toolbar. It&#8217;s good. Then install the compute thingie from my link (google doesn&#8217;t publicize the Compute link. I think that&#8217;s because the Folding venture has already gotten pretty much enough recruits. Hehe. The Google team is more than 1\/2 of Folding&#8217;s distributed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}