Am I even contributing to Rosetta@Home?

[Chasingu]

I use Rosetta@Home over Folding@Home mainly because I can schedule when I want Rosetta@home to run using BOINC and the fact that I run MilkyWay@Home on the GPU, and Rosetta@home on the CPU.

I did the math.

I have a Quad Core Stock Clocked i5 3570K. It takes one core 3 hours to do one Rosetta task. On the weekends, the computer runs from 10:05 PM to 6:00 AM. Doing the math, during those hours, I only do 10 tasks. On the weekdays, It will be doing tasks from 9:05 PM to 2:00 PM the next day, and with that math I will only be doing 21 tasks.

With the above math, am I even contributing to the project?

[SugarJ]

It shows you are. Account data for Chasingu

[Chasingu]

I understand that, I meant, for only 21 projects in that amount of time a day, am I helping the matter at all to be valuable?

[SugarJ]

Any time you contribute is worthwhile, IMHO. You are helping work on projects that may help cure terminal diseases.

[Tim_H]

Originally Posted by SugarJ

Any time you contribute is worthwhile...

I'd second that

[Dead Things]

I can understand your concern, but I would like you to keep in mind that even one task is infinitely more than zero. Any contribution at all is meaningful; each completed task brings the project one step closer to realizing its goals.