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Staph

(6,251 posts)

17. Not really!

Reply to Tadpole Raisin (Reply #16)

Wed Sep 1, 2021, 09:15 PM

Sep 2021

I'm ranked number 48,082 in terms of results sent in. I used to work for IBM, and I started running the Grid not long after IBM started the project. I've run this on six different laptops over the fourteen years I've participated.

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I used to donate computer processing power to Stanford for projects involving assessing molecules [View all] Tadpole Raisin Sep 2021 OP

Thanks! Sounds interesting hauckeye Sep 2021 #1

YW - this makes me feel like I have another way to give back! Tadpole Raisin Sep 2021 #6

I used to fold with Stanford, too SheltieLover Sep 2021 #2

They should have thanked you and others. Nt spooky3 Sep 2021 #4

I wasn't doing it for thanks SheltieLover Sep 2021 #8

YW - for some reason this makes me feel a little less helpless about things. I just wish BOINC Tadpole Raisin Sep 2021 #5

It's always great to pitch in & help for sure! SheltieLover Sep 2021 #9

Folding at Home ornotna Sep 2021 #3

Great! I'll take a look at them, TY! Tadpole Raisin Sep 2021 #7

Glad to hear! SheltieLover Sep 2021 #10

we used to have a du team. mopinko Sep 2021 #11

Still a team member ornotna Sep 2021 #12

Hey, I recognize a bunch of these names. So cool. I had no idea. Hortensis Sep 2021 #13

I wonder if in the new iteration of DU they could add a 'folding' folder Tadpole Raisin Sep 2021 #14

I've been on World Community Grid since 2007! Staph Sep 2021 #15

Wow, you are like the computer processing donation equivalent of a Red Cross blood donor! Tadpole Raisin Sep 2021 #16

Not really! Staph Sep 2021 #17