I probably donated 10 years of idle CPU time between 2005 to 2015.
SMaE
Here’s what the intarrwebs say:
Folding@home: achievements from over twenty years of citizen science herald the exascale era https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10055475/
Here’s waht FAH says: https://foldingathome.org/category/fah-achievements/
Yes quite a few as other commenters have indicated. Another good one is !boinc@sopuli.xyz. BOINC is an open source platform for volunteer computing that also has hundreds of scientific papers and citations under its belt. There are BOINC projects for medical research, space research, math, you name it, there’s probably a BOINC project for it. Anybody can start a BOINC project and you choose which projects you contribute CPU/GPU time to. You can pick more than one at a time. You may recognize some of the people hosting BOINC projects: Large Hardon Collider, Max Planck Institute, University of Washington Institute for Protein Design, etc
I forgot there is also the SETI@home project working on the same principle. Searching Extra Terrestrial Intelligence 👽👽👽
Can you eli5 folding at home project?
10 years of idle time in 10 years. Did you just like leave a computer switched on for 10 years while you took up farming?
I mean I had the programme running for 10 years, donating whenever it was on and idle or on a low load. It was not necessary to be perfectly idle, the programme could take just e.g. 50% of the CPU. (Famously on a core2duo running programmes that were not multi-core). All in all my computer was probably on 12 hours per day
