I've never done this before, but I set up a spare laptop to donate computing power to research. I used #FAH (foldingathome.org)

Does anyone do this and have some insights and opinion on the best way to do it?
I've seen also BOINC is good and let you choose what to donate to, but I've no time atm to get deeper into it.

Anyway, in case you are not a tech, it was dead easy and it took me literally 5 minutes while drinking an orange juice.