I tried #foldingathome and #boinc on my M2 MacBook Air to see how they work without fans.

None of them use the efficient cores of the #applesilicon CPUs, even #einsteinathome, which supposedly is written for these.

#apptamer can force #foldingathome but not #boinc to run on the efficient cores and #primegrid can use the GPU.

Makes me wonder again how green is #distributedcomputing compared to projects building or renting larger, more efficient computers. #greencomputing