[Hnrobert42]

I just bought a powerful mac mini, but due to other projects arising, it sits idle. I am curious if anyone has suggestions.

I looked through a dozen or so BOINC projects, but they all seem dead. The amicable pairs project had some 2020 results and activity in its forum, but I couldn’t draw a line to any practical goal.

That said, maybe the sorts of projects that have practical outcomes don’t need to rely on the computing power of strangers.

[wiether]

Rosetta@Home seems pretty alive : https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13533

[christopherbalz]

"Distributed computing project, Rosetta@Home, is using the BOINC infrastructure to model covid-19 proteins that may be drug targets. " - https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/f5as77/distributed...

I have run BOINC on my own computers for about 20 years. I really like it because it always properly steps out of the way whenever the computer is being used for something else (including config to do that when simply other processes need more resource), and because it's cross-platform.