What do you do with your spare computer cycles?

[Alan]

I run Rosetta@home, and you can find more information about it at http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ . The aim is to use spare computer power to fold proteins and come up with cures to many diseases. I won't pretend to be an expert on this one, but it seems to be a very good cause. And any results that are obtained from this are released to the world for free. Seems to be a good idea to me.

What do you do with yours? If you do nothing or you're spending your cycles searching for aliens, will you join Rosetta@home? There could even be a Notesfromspain team :)

Alan

[Marbella]

I'm up and running. Don't think I will ever understand what it is actually doing but it is geeky enough to interest me. It's certainly got the processor working hard already.

[Alan]

Yeah, it only uses spare cycles though, so you shouldn't notice your computer running any slower. And I don't understand it either - leave that to the scientists who write the software :)

[guapo]

What do you do with yours? If you do nothing or you're spending your cycles searching for aliens, will you join Rosetta@home? There could even be a Notesfromspain team :)

Alan
If this WSJ article on SETI (http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115145653496392561-3YTEjOQhd0ZilADHfEf8hoK4BhA_20070628.html?mod=blog s) is to be believed searching for aliens is a complete waste of time. So far better to contribute to something like Rosetta.