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FishtiksΒ 
posted an update 19 days ago
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Have extra processing power in downtime? Have old devices you haven't used in years? I recommend primarily Folding@home to do protein folding on your GPUs, but also BOINC, particularly on Android and Apple devices, because of the lower power usage. I've been doing this, and get about 14,000 hours a week in, primarily for mapping cancer markers on BOINC on an Aiyara cluster of Androids. I also hold a sign out by the highway encouraging people to join BOINC. It was Dylan Bucci, a young promoter of BOINC on school's computers, who wished before he died to get as many people on as possible to do this, and in his honor, the Dylan Bucci challenge was implemented. No reason to wait for a challenge. If you care about such things, there is an associated cryptocurrency for such processing, but it's worth it to save lives.

I look forward to AI-related endeavors like this, and only know of NATIX Drive&, Acurast, and HYRA AI, all of which use Androids I'd rather devote to BOINC. However, they also allow one to be paid, and to totally devote old devices to the processing. On the same topic, DexPOINT monetizes your Android's Internet connection.

BOINC runs on Android, Apple, PCs of all sorts, Pi devices, Chrome devices, Fire Sticks, TV boxes, Android watches with the full OS, and all sorts of things that have Android or the ability to run Linux, although it will also run on Windows. Folding@home works best on PCs with modern NVIDIA GPUs, and in a cool room. You can also run BOINC on modern computers, but they must be throttled, because they often get too hot.

Woah this is huge! I'm gonna look into this. Such a cool way to contribute to science/research.

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Always glad to get more people involved. People didn't think SETI@home would take off like it did, but it spread really well by mostly word of mouth, given how bad the Internet was then. I'm currently running about 20 devices, but have another two coming in today. I just ask people to have their old Androids and Chromebooks, because those are fairly energy efficient and people are constantly upgrading. But I will admit I bought ten Androids from eBay once just to add to my donation.