I've never come across interference causing less productivity. Chips are clever enough to keep themselves busy with something all the time.

You're on the old version of Folding (why?). I'm on version 8, but when I was on 7 it was the same.

Strange, every time I've run Boinc and Folding together on one GPU or one CPU, Boinc gets priority. I've been told Folding uses the shaders on your GPU, perhaps Boinc projects use something different, I think usually the compute units? If you pick the right projects and your card can run shaders and compute units at once, you might manage both full speed.

I have a big GPU that runs folding@home, and an iGPU and a laptop GPU that run OpenPandemics as tasks appear. On the folding@home machine, I have boinc set to use 99% of CPUs so that folding@home has one dedicated thread.

The trouble with Folding being off-Boinc, is I can't do OPG aswell, as Boinc takes over the GPU and Folding backs off, and their short deadlines get missed. Not sure why it's so shy.

I've been running World Community Grid and DENIS@home (https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/) during the lull. DENIS@home doesn't always have tasks, but they have had a pretty steady flow recently.

I've been getting some Covid GPU tasks from WCG, but they're quite rare, apparently the scientists can't keep up with the GPUs. It's a pity they can't get the cancer research on GPU too. Folding@Home manages to do GPU work for cancer. Unfortunately it's not in Boinc, so running it at the same time requires manual adjustment and intervention.

I believe that the science is good and the need is there. But we have systems that need tasks to work on. We can't go back in time so please bump your science people to finalize new work for us.

Is the reason that we have been working on wine grapes due to the existence of private funding?

Anything to improve wine is a good thing!