Joe Mirando of Atari Online News, Etc. has created Team Atari. This team is for anyone who is a fan of Atari computer or game systems, past or present. We have donated over 30 years of computing power as of December, 2000. I'm sure that for purely practical, non-competitive reasons, you'd like to cut your processing time down. The older versions might be slower and may not be able to obtain new work packets.
Every program running in the background or in the taskbar takes up processing time.
Otherwise, you're spending more time juggling the swap file than you are processing. There's an option in the screen saver program to turn off the screen. This boosts processing speed, as the program doesn't have to compute the cute graphics. Thanks to Gary Priest for this suggestion. You will probably need to run one as screen saver and the other as command line.