Hey! Iāve been running folding@home since April. As of this writing, this is what the MPU Teamās stats look like:
Some things Iāve learned over time:
ā¢ This is not optimal for laptops. My poor MacBook Air was running at 95Ā°C the whole time it was folding. My iMac could run on full blast for days and be just fine, at the cost of fan noise.
ā¢ If you really want to get points, you have to be in Windows. While there are plenty of CPU projects for the Mac, you can only run GPU jobs on Windows. My point count exploded once I got Boot Camp up and going.
But the nice thing is that while some look at it as a contest, the most important part of folding is that every contribution, whether it comes from a dual core MacBook or a Threadripper custom rig, aids in COVID research. Keep it up!
But letās increase the advantageā¦