For 20 years now, there has been at least one April Fool’s joke on OCinside.de every year, but this year, unfortunately, everything is different. Of course we have thought about a Covid-19 virus scanner for the PC or a Corona Tester kit with only a few components or toilet paper for printing by yourself, but we don’t want to cause confusion during this time and will do without our April Fool’s joke this year. We would rather like to help and support the fight against Corona with our computing power. We are already looking forward to the support in the OCinside.de team against Corona, Stay Safe!
Many thanks for the support …
Many thanks for the support to all readers!
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Foreword …
In addition to our BOINC teams we have also opened a new Folding at home team in search of serious diseases, where every OCinside reader can participate!
But what about the April fool? …
If you still want to smile a little today, April 1st, 2020, you can of course have a look at some of our previous April fool’s tricks, like CPU tuning in the egg boiler, Gourmet Edition Cooking Pot Cooler Test, CPU with integrated Nano fans, Freshrink wrap display, Double the SSD capacity with a hole puncher in our Just for fun View the workshop section. And to make the coming time a little more pleasant, everyone is welcome to share encouraging thoughts and wishes in the forum.
BOINC and Folding@home …
Distributed Computing can help in the fight against the corona virus Sars-CoV-2 and other viruses or research in many areas! Because computing power is urgently needed in research, and by means of the appropriate tools, computing power is transferred to the gaming computers, not only to search for extraterrestrials, but also to search for a suitable protein structure. Because these proteins are searched for in order to use the best possible proteins, for example as a vaccine against Covid-19. We are already looking forward to the support of the OCinside team against Corona, Stay Safe!
How to take part …
If you want to participate in our OCinside.de teams for research against serious diseases, viruses, etc., you can download the respective software for free either at BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) or at F@H (Folding@home) or even at both platforms and let it calculate in parallel in the background of your PC.
BOINC …
Here you can download the BOINC software, then select e.g. Rosetta@Home against Corona and other diseases, then register there and select as team number at Rosetta@home 3885 (OverClocked inside) For Seti@home it is team number 30519 (OverClocked inside), where we have been crunching since April 2002.
Folding@home …
OCinside.de is now with a brand new team at F@H! Here you can download the FAH software, first restart your PC!, then click on the F@H symbol in the lower right corner and enter your own name (not OCinside) in the Advanced Control under Identity, request Passkey and then enter the Passkey, enter 254014 in Team number and save the team with Save.
Folding@home help and BOINC help …
In our forum there are in the BOINC post some tips, more links to the team statistics and of course always help from our strong team and from our friendly visitors.
Electricity costs …
Of course the whole thing has a disadvantage. Even if the two tools only work in the background and therefore hardly disturb while working on the PC, the CPU and/or the graphics card is used in the background. This has the advantage for powerful PCs in winter that they can warm up the PC room well, but the disadvantage is unfortunately the higher power consumption.
How many Euros of electricity costs per year for an economical Silent PC or a real gaming monster can be calculated with our PC power cost calculator:
Interactive power consumption Calculator
At this point again: Stay Safe! And also just help the seniors in your neighborhood, maybe one of the seniors has no shopping courier yet and is already waiting for you. But no matter if it’s with computing power or shopping or mask sewing or, or, or, or, it’s worth it to help!
Discuss about BOINC and FAH in the forum and exchange experiences …
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