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Has any scientific breakthrough come out of the Folding@Home project? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I probably donated 10 years of idle CPU time between 2005 to 2015.

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[–] dave@feddit.uk -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

10 years of idle time in 10 years. Did you just like leave a computer switched on for 10 years while you took up farming?

[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

If 10,000 people work one hour in one day, then that day still had 10,000 hours worked even if a day is only 24 hours. Same with CPUs, many of them run on more than just one core.

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I mean I had the programme running for 10 years, donating whenever it was on and idle or on a low load. It was not necessary to be perfectly idle, the programme could take just e.g. 50% of the CPU. (Famously on a core2duo running programmes that were not multi-core). All in all my computer was probably on 12 hours per day