[PLUG] Folding at home

[David Fleck]

I don't have any insights about your prime concern, security. I can tell you I ran Folding at home for a while on a secondary laptop, and they aren't kidding about the compute intensity and running hot parts (at least on the fairly pathetic ThinkPad I used). I stopped because I didn't like the idea of an unattended machine running that hot all the time.


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- David Fleck

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On Thursday, April 16, 2020 6:54 PM, Mark Heimstaedt <markheim9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Avast antivirus suggests installing Folding at home module to effect
> distributed computing to analyze covid proteins. It warns compute
> intensity, running hot, and high electric use, advises run at night.
> Seeking opinions on installing Folding at home plug at pdxlinux.org
>
> especially security risks, etc.
> Your thoughts ??
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