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The FPS Team is live
Most of you know me. I've been kicking around these forums since just about day one. Today I'm wearing a slightly different hat, because I've just started something new: The FPS Team, the official BOINC team for TheFPSReview.com.
Quick version for anyone who hasn't run into BOINC before: it's a free app that lets your PC volunteer its spare compute to real scientific research, like protein folding, climate models, prime number hunting, gravitational-wave and radio-signal analysis, cancer and disease research, and a whole lot more. When your rig isn't gaming, rendering, or benchmarking, it can quietly crunch actual science instead of sitting idle. Your results go to real research projects, and you rack up credit (and bragging rights) for the work your hardware does.
If you think about it, "FPS" was always going to end up here. We obsess over frames per second. The whole site is built on chasing them. BOINC just points that same hardware at floating-point operations per second. Same silicon, same obsession with performance, just aimed at problems that actually matter.
And honestly, this is the perfect community for it. You all already own the hardware. You've already pushed it past spec, tuned the curves, and watched the benchmarks. This is the next thing to compete over, except the leaderboard you climb is also producing research that helps people.
Want in? Here's how:
- Grab BOINC from https://boinc.berkeley.edu (Windows, Linux, macOS).
- Attach to a project that interests you. There's something for every kind of hardware, CPU or GPU.
- In your account on that project, search teams for The FPS Team and join.
Heads up: BOINC teams are per-project, so you join The FPS Team on each project you decide to run. I'll keep a running list of where we're set up and answer any questions right here in this thread.
No commitment, no cost, and you can throttle exactly how much of your machine it uses. Pull up a chair, fire up a project, and let's see what this community's hardware can really do.
Cheers,
Skillz
