i take it everyone here knows what folding@home is, if not: Folding@Home Homepage

so me and a friend of mine were just walking down the corridor after a lesson talking about how awesome his gaming life had become since he got his ps3 online. wee were just chatting when this idea came into my head. the ps3 comes with a F@H client, and it's one of the biggest contributors to the project. i don't know how thi next bit came to me. my school has recently bought a load of new computers that are decent-ish (3ghz P4, 512ram, 80g hdd, dvd burners), and overhauled a load of the older ones (mostly P3 1ghz). what if the school put the F@H client onto all of the newer pc's, iagine how much computing power that is. 50 odd computers of the above spec and 80 odd of an older spec. that equals (50x3)+80=230ghz! not bad. i suggested it to the IT admin guy and he said he's done it at home before and thought it was a very good idea. he said he might consider it for the school.

other schools have done this before but this is the first anyone I've talked to so far have heard of it. i found a thread about someone else who's done this in the past here: linky.

what do you guys (and gals) think?