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I just initiated a schedule for folding on our new G5 iMacs here at work. Since folding will use all the processing power it can get, it causes the fan to run full speed on these G5 iMacs. That can be a bit annoying when you are trying to do other things. Instead of not running folding@home at all, I came up with a more friendly schedule to run folding during none work hours. If anyone is interested, here is the crontab:

0       18      *       *       1,2,3,4,5       cd ~/.fah1/; nohup ./fah5 -local -advmethods -forceasm &
0       7       *       *       1,2,3,4,5       killall fah5

This will start folding at 6pm on weekdays and shutdown folding at 7am on weekdays, leaving the weekend for non-stop folding.