Just maybe, F@H won’t amount to much, but better we burn a little power on Folding At Home, compared to how much absolute TRASH is hosted out there on the Internet!

I admit, I’m a cynic. I just don’t see this project as being all that justified when you factor in the power consumed and the resources needed to generate said power. Power generation can be a pretty good source of carcinogens, and all that.

To do any REAL good with this, seems to me you’d have to devote just a wee bit more than your “idle cycles”, a misleading selling point, to be sure. Maybe the fact that it’s on PS3 has me thinking it requires serious horsepower, not certain.

Has an in-depth study been conducted to determine the real benefit versus possible environmental cost of this project? Not that I’m much of an “environmentalist type”, at all.

“I fight cancer on two fronts, my business and folding.

I own a Home Care Business where I send nurses to homes to care for the elderly AT THEIR homes. One aspect of my business is we take care of Chemo-Therapy patients at home also. We take care of their ailments while on Chemo.

In Miami, my parents own a Hospice Company, where they send Nurses to take care of patients on their last months of life. Those deemed to have less than 6 months to live.

This is where I get my passion for Folding from. Seeing/hearing/talking and interacting with people who suffer from all these diseases makes you want to do something about it.”

http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net-folding-home-team/370859-nitteo-s-f-h-gpu2-farm-2.html#post4361959

I run folding at home on my PS3 from time to time and it takes about 4 hours for one project

The 8800’s have about 100 stream processors (depending on the model)

So that should get a lot done haha

What do you think? Is that an overkill?

Are you kidding me? Of course this is absolute overkill for an ordinary home user. It looks like a hobby that got way out of hand, hope it’s all worth it :D