If I REALLY wanted to, I could probably call in a few favors from people on the academic side and get the folding client installed in some labs around campus. I bet we have over 5000 PCs on campus, but I'd have a hard time convincing most of the people that admin them that they should be folding for some extreme cooling/OC'ing web-site team they've never heard of before. Though sometimes I wonder if I could convince my boss that folding is a worthwile use of resources and create a new team how well we'd do.
Back in the real world - my scripts are a bit more work than yours Joe - I have to manually install them on each machine and manually start them every time I want them to run (I have them just setup to run for X hours and quit) - but the trial worked good. I pushed them out to a total of 5 machines now (10 CPU's between 2.4 and 3.06Ghz - yes they are all dual-CPU machines) and if I'm bored tomorrow I'll see what I can setup for the weekend.
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