Folding@home - Give it a try.

ultravoxultravox Registered Users Posts: 776 Major grins
edited November 5, 2007 in The Big Picture
MOD EDIT: The link below leads to a web-page containing information only, not to any software downloads. The decision to participate in this program and to employ the necessary software on your computer is yours alone.

Your participation can help lead to a cure for: Cancer, Parkinson's Didease, Alzheimer's Disease aso. You can help by simply running a piece of software on your computer when idle.
http://folding.stanford.edu/

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Cristian.
[SIZE=-1]It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. - John Lennon.[/SIZE]

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  • ultravoxultravox Registered Users Posts: 776 Major grins
    edited June 29, 2007
    Right, thank you Gus.
    C'mon pople, spare some CPU's.
    Cristian.
    [SIZE=-1]It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. - John Lennon.[/SIZE]
  • evorywareevoryware Registered Users Posts: 1,330 Major grins
    edited June 30, 2007
    I did Seti @ Home for 2 years for pcper.com. I'll look into it. Dgrin's got plenty members for a top spot.
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  • RhuarcRhuarc Registered Users Posts: 1,464 Major grins
    edited November 1, 2007
    Ok everyone, for those who participate in Folding@home, or those who are interested, I created a DGrin team. If you would like your folding time to go towards the team please use this team number:

    Team Name: DGrinners FTW!!
    Team #: 91837
    Team Statistics

    Please post here if you plan on contributing your folding to the team!

    Edit: For those who don't know what this is I've pasted in a quote from the Folding@home website
    What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?
    Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

    Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

    You can help by simply running a piece of software.
    Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
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  • DJ-S1DJ-S1 Registered Users Posts: 2,303 Major grins
    edited November 1, 2007
    In.

    This is a worthwhile thing folks and doesn't impact your computer. Donate some CPU cycles today! deal.gif
  • DougNorCalDougNorCal Registered Users Posts: 54 Big grins
    edited November 5, 2007
    DJ-S1 wrote:
    This is a worthwhile thing folks and doesn't impact your computer.
    I've been folding for over six months, so I'm a fan, but not to be too much of a nit picker, but it does impact your computer. It causes the CPU and memory systems to run continuously, which does generate more heat and pulls more electricity. All my computers and my PS3 are folding and I'm sure it does cost me higher electricty bills and is pumping heat into the environment. I do know that my notebooks NEVER cool down, but are always running their fans because they are folding. Also, be careful doing this on hardware that you don't own. Your employer might not understand why you're using all these CPU cycles, best to get permission first.

    Hopefully it will be useful...
  • RhuarcRhuarc Registered Users Posts: 1,464 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2007
    DougNorCal wrote:
    I've been folding for over six months, so I'm a fan, but not to be too much of a nit picker, but it does impact your computer. It causes the CPU and memory systems to run continuously, which does generate more heat and pulls more electricity. All my computers and my PS3 are folding and I'm sure it does cost me higher electricty bills and is pumping heat into the environment. I do know that my notebooks NEVER cool down, but are always running their fans because they are folding. Also, be careful doing this on hardware that you don't own. Your employer might not understand why you're using all these CPU cycles, best to get permission first.

    Hopefully it will be useful...

    I was referring to the impact as being a performance hit while you are trying to do other things. I agree that it does make your computer work more, but most users shouldn't see any slow downs on their systems while folding.
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2007
    Im busy looking for aliens with SETI. They have the cures we need.
  • DJ-S1DJ-S1 Registered Users Posts: 2,303 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2007
    Rhuarc wrote:
    I was referring to the impact as being a performance hit while you are trying to do other things. I agree that it does make your computer work more, but most users shouldn't see any slow downs on their systems while folding.
    Right, that's what I meant too. I thought some folks would think it would make their programs run slower, but AFAIK it doesn't.
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