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I've recently started giving aid in the effort of various distributed projects ranging from the SETI project to finding the crash-point of SHA-1. It makes me feel good that my computer's idle time can be well spent in crunching numbers for outstanding orgonizations.

boinc.berkeley.edu is the primary site for the BOINC manager which once installed, you may choose the project(s) in which you would like to participate in. I have my computer set to start working once the computer goes idle for 10 minutes and to only use 90% of the cpu power total.

I'm also Boincing it. It was fairly hard to find a project which, in my opinion, was worthwhile, I mean, calculating mersenneprimes or searching for little green men hardly makes a big difference. Then I found Boinc and Rosette@home, which involves folding proteins. This seems like a project where I, as a participant, could make a difference.

I used to (well I still am) a member of worldcommunitygrid.org, which has a number of projects you can choose from. Pretty much all of them are for useful things like diseases and such. I gave up the calculations because it kept bringing my computer out of idle in the middle of the night, which drove me insane.

I'm running SETI and Rosetta
Too much CPU time to waste anyway.

I just looked into rosetta and I will be participating as well (along with the SHA-1 collision project), they will share 50% of the work time. I think more people should get into using their idle CPU time for good, unless of course they are of the few that actually turn their computers off at night or when idle.

i turn my pc off whenever im not going to be using it for more than 20 minutes. then again, it is a laptop... and pulling a charger out of a bag is such effort

I would participate in a project, I even ported the BOINC(5.10.45) client..

Sadly most projects seem to reject my "i386-unknown-openbsd" platform, that, or I can't figure out how to initiate the workload..

22-Jun-2008 20:01:16 [SETI@home] Message from server: platform 'i386-unknown-openbsd' not found

No further activity.. no messages, no noticeable cpu/network usage increase...

I wanna help locate aliens dammit ..

I've been running Rosetta@Home for quite some time now. It seems much more important for real world things than SETI or prime number crunching...

Or, I was running it anyway. I've got a computer with 8x2Ghz processor cores here, and since it's running at like 1% activity most of the time (while not rendering something or gaming that is), I figured I could let it run something useful. I forget how much credit I accumulated over the year or so, but I disabled it recently for now.

My internet has very strict daily usage limits, and apparently the job data for Rosetta is pretty large, so when you download like 24 jobs per day, it starts adding up too quickly. Whenever I move my computer back to my appartment with better internet, I'll let it run again.