@John - Folding at home reports are available on their website where they list all the projects they are working on and how the results turned out
@Frozenrubber - You bring up the cost of running the programs by mentioning the price of electricity, what you are forgetting is that these academic institutions are not the ones running the programs, but instead it is your computer during its idle time (I have mine set up to run when my desktop is idle). The only cost to these academic institutions is a small group they have to maintain the program and the scientists that create the programs and process the data. These same projects would previously be done on dedicated supercomputers which do not have the same processing power as 670,000 desktops / PS3's working together and have a much, much higher purchase and maintenance cost.
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@John - Folding at home reports are available on their website where they list all the projects they are working on and how the results turned out
@Frozenrubber - You bring up the cost of running the programs by mentioning the price of electricity, what you are forgetting is that these academic institutions are not the ones running the programs, but instead it is your computer during its idle time (I have mine set up to run when my desktop is idle). The only cost to these academic institutions is a small group they have to maintain the program and the scientists that create the programs and process the data. These same projects would previously be done on dedicated supercomputers which do not have the same processing power as 670,000 desktops / PS3's working together and have a much, much higher purchase and maintenance cost.