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If you have spare computing power, consider donating some of that to a distributed computing project (boinc.berkeley.edu)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Berkeley has this really cool program called BOINC that you can download and donate your computer's resources to processing scientific data. There are a bunch of projects to pick, from working on climate change, to cancer, to the Large Hadron Collider.

The good folks at linuxserver.io even have a ready to go Docker container for easy setup: https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/boinc

Another possibility is running the Archive Team's Warrior, which downloads data from at risk web sites and uploads them to the Internet Archive: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

Does anyone else have examples of projects like this? My dream is for the Fediverse to have this sort of feature eventually.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What do you mean by "spare"? Modern CPUs scale their electricity usage according to utilisation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use a VPS. They don't charge based on CPU utilization so I run Folding@Home on it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please only do this on plans with a dedicated vCPU that isn't shared with other users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For now, until economics catches up with you :-) Enjoy it while it lasts I suppose.

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