Been running boinc / World Community Grid jobs for like 10+ years straight. Has all sorts of throttling settings, so it's pretty much set it and forget it, it doesn't interfere with other apps I run.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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Always good to see a BOINC veteran in the wild π»
What a strange coincidence. It's been a while since I donated some of mine, but I turned it all on an hour ago as power is very cheap for us right now. And now there's this post. :D
Anyone know of specific things that have been accomplished from people donating power to boinc?
The first 3d model of the covid spike protein (rosetta@home and folding@home), finding new drug candidates which are being tested now in wetlabs (sidock), and identifying new genes associated with lung cancer (world community grid) are just a few of its accomplishments in the past 5 years. That and continually adding to publicly accessible databases of pulsars, black holes, asteroids, and other astronomical objects found by BOINC users (einstein@home, universe@home, asteroids@home)
A list of scientific papers published by BOINC projects https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php
Thatβs awesome, thanks for sharing!
Scientific progress goes BOINC!
They could pay me instead
There are some cryptocurrencies that reward you for your BOINC work. Gridcoin is the most well known and has been around over a decade (they also reward Folding@home). I definitely turn a profit doing BOINC work in winter since I'm using the waste heat. The rest of the year is a little more variable.
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