Hey all,
I know I am not a regular poster here but I am a regular reader but, when I got this from a co-worker and checked it out I thought this would be good to share. It is called Folding@home http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Main (http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Main). It is client software you download and allow to run when you are not using your computer. The client will get a "work pack" from the university and do the calculations needed then send it back when complete. These "work packs" assist in folding proteins that can help find a cause/cure for Cancer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Take a look and read the site for yourself.
Here is an exerpt from the site...
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.
For people who are familiar with the SETI@home project, this is a similar idea.
BTW,
If anyone does install the client, I have created a team. Once installed you can enter the team number so all stats are tallied.
Team name - DucMonster
Team number - 154595
I just installed it and joined your group.
I thinks its crunching data now but the Viewer keeps crashing =(
Quote from: ROBsS4R on November 24, 2008, 07:38:22 PM
I just installed it and joined your group.
I thinks its crunching data now but the Viewer keeps crashing =(
Thanks for joining, [thumbsup]
no problems with the viewer on my end but to honest, not much to see...LOL Pretty much like watching the visualization on Media Player [cheeky]
For some reason it wouldn't work on my computer....
Quote from: Jumptship on November 24, 2008, 07:50:48 PM
Thanks for joining, [thumbsup]
no problems with the viewer on my end but to honest, not much to see...LOL Pretty much like watching the visualization on Media Player [cheeky]
Bah
Doesnt the ps3 version have a cool Visualizer?
In anycase it appears to be working 8/200 work units processed so far.
the visualizer
(https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3036/3057780817_9a1154c22f.jpg?v=0)
HOLY MOLY Mother! You gonna finish that in one sitting?
Quote from: Jumptship on November 25, 2008, 05:14:30 PM
HOLY MOLY Mother! You gonna finish that in one sitting?
right now my computer i s S L O W
this project is a resource hog
Quote from: Mother on November 25, 2008, 05:18:07 PM
right now my computer i s S L O W
this project is a resource hog
Methinks its a carbon based error. :-*
Quote from: JBubble on November 25, 2008, 05:19:23 PM
Methinks its a carbon based error. :-*
ha!
you funny
go ahead and download it onto your laptop and see what happens
Quote from: Mother on November 25, 2008, 05:23:24 PM
ha!
you funny
go ahead and download it onto your laptop and see what happens
oh dont be a grumpy bear.
[cheeky]
i had one of these on my school computer back in college. work computer has too much sensitive data to put this kinda stuff on it.
Quote from: Mother on November 25, 2008, 05:18:07 PM
right now my computer i s S L O W
this project is a resource hog
Check your configuration, you can adjust how much processor power it gets.
I think the ps3 version only runs while your not using it so it doesn't affect the speed or performance of the machine while your playing...shouldn't it be that way with the computer too?
i signed up for this a couple of years ago under a diff team.
and yes, it's a resource hog and a half.
for those who are having trouble installing it, i had to uninstall and then reload it a couple of times. for some reason it didn't fully install on the first try.
I've been running it for over a year now on my 3 computers (over 430 WU's completed on the machine I'm on now), and my PS3 some times (mostly because it makes my room hotter then hell)
I've only had problems with it being a resource hog on one machine, and its a 64bit windows machine. After setting the priority level down all problems with it went away..
BTW... PS3 is FAST.
Fastest client currently out there is the GPU2 Nvidia Client. It puts the PS3 client to shame.
I am currently running for the Planet AMD64 team which is a top 75 team. Ipersonally just went over 1 million points running 3 GPU2 Nvidia clients, 2 fulltime Windows SMP clients, 1 part time Windows SMP client and 4 normal Windows Clients.
I average over 12k points a day with all clients running.
Best SMP client to run is the Linux SMP client. Our team leader puts up over 300k points per day when all of his macines run. But his wife will only let him run his full farm 2 days a week. Electric costs ya know.
During setup, set it to run idle cpu cycles and at 96% and it won't give you any noticeable slowdown.
Anyway, have relatives affected by Alzheimers and while I doubt that my contribution will find the cure, I would like to think it is helping head in that direction.
Fold On!!!
Quote from: ZLTFUL on November 26, 2008, 08:49:37 AM
Fastest client currently out there is the GPU2 Nvidia Client. It puts the PS3 client to shame.
I am currently running for the Planet AMD64 team which is a top 75 team. Ipersonally just went over 1 million points running 3 GPU2 Nvidia clients, 2 fulltime Windows SMP clients, 1 part time Windows SMP client and 4 normal Windows Clients.
I average over 12k points a day with all clients running.
Best SMP client to run is the Linux SMP client. Our team leader puts up over 300k points per day when all of his macines run. But his wife will only let him run his full farm 2 days a week. Electric costs ya know.
During setup, set it to run idle cpu cycles and at 96% and it won't give you any noticeable slowdown.
Anyway, have relatives affected by Alzheimers and while I doubt that my contribution will find the cure, I would like to think it is helping head in that direction.
Fold On!!!
wow that rawks [thumbsup]
now say it again in english
Quote from: Mother on November 26, 2008, 08:57:29 AM
wow that rawks [thumbsup]
now say it again in english
it again in english
:)