I just wanted to mention that I still do Folding@Home, that distributed computing project to solve cancer and such. I just wanted to say that a month or so ago they FINALLY released a client for Intel-based Macs. With all due respect, they had never made a folding engine that worked on multiple-cored processors, and all the new Macs are multicore, so I guess that’s why it took so long, but I’ve been running the beta client 24/7 since it’s been out and I’ve been cranking work units at a pace much brisker (we’re talking at least a factor of two) than my old single core 3.0GHz Pentium 4 830. I don’t have any stats as of yet, because the new client doesn’t show you the estimated times to finishing work units, like the Windows client did, and it is comparing apples to oranges in that both clients use completely different instruction sets, but the underlying theory is valid:
My Mac Mini, being all brushed aluminum and silent, kicks the ass of my old LED fan-encrusted Pentium box.
So, without further ado, I link to my Folding@Home team. Me and Joe created it years ago, and I made the neat little graphic. I’m really interested in who the other contributors are. I’m sure they’re people I know, but still. I’m curious! Is it you?
Well, if the impulse to use your spare processor power to cure cancer and other diseases, you can check out the program here.