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What is folding?
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phatphatman
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I've only started folding for about a week now but this is my grasp on it. Folding is basically about taking a bunch of computers and putting them together to make one super computer that can run a beefy program that finds cures for diseases and stuff.
As you've probably noticed, my definition is a pretty n00b.
Here's the definition that I grabbed off of http://forum.iamnotageek.com/t-52943.html
"Folding@Home is a distributed computing project sponsored and run by Stanford University. The project studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. One goal is to ultimately understand why proteins misfold, which results in diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis, BSE (Mad Cow disease), an inherited form of emphysema, and even many cancers. Misfolded proteins that clump together can often gather in the brain, where it is believed to cause the symptoms of Mad Cow or Alzheimer's disease."
Enjoy!
As you've probably noticed, my definition is a pretty n00b.
Here's the definition that I grabbed off of http://forum.iamnotageek.com/t-52943.html
"Folding@Home is a distributed computing project sponsored and run by Stanford University. The project studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. One goal is to ultimately understand why proteins misfold, which results in diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis, BSE (Mad Cow disease), an inherited form of emphysema, and even many cancers. Misfolded proteins that clump together can often gather in the brain, where it is believed to cause the symptoms of Mad Cow or Alzheimer's disease."
Enjoy!
I'll try and sum it up as much as i can.
If we could get computers to do simulations of proteins "folding", we might find something "out of the ordinary", and perhaps observing this they may find the cause of common diseases.
These simulations "fold" proteins... a process that proteins in your body do very quickly.
The problem with these computer simulations, is that there are so many variables and so complex physics involved, it takes Massive computing power. So, instead of stanford buying or renting expensive super computers, they created this program.
Many little computers take very small pieces of these simulations, compute them, and send back the finished piece.
For each returned unit, you get a certain amount of points added to your user name, and if you are part of a team ([H]ard|OCP is team 33), the team gets credit for your contribution.
As for the program, it uses ONLY idle CPU usage by default. So that means if you have anything more then a pentium 233MHz, you won't notice it. You can read more about it here http://folding.stanford.edu
It is recommend that you run one client/consle per CPU you have (or virtual CPU in the case of a P4 with HT).
~Hope this helps.
If we could get computers to do simulations of proteins "folding", we might find something "out of the ordinary", and perhaps observing this they may find the cause of common diseases.
These simulations "fold" proteins... a process that proteins in your body do very quickly.
The problem with these computer simulations, is that there are so many variables and so complex physics involved, it takes Massive computing power. So, instead of stanford buying or renting expensive super computers, they created this program.
Many little computers take very small pieces of these simulations, compute them, and send back the finished piece.
For each returned unit, you get a certain amount of points added to your user name, and if you are part of a team ([H]ard|OCP is team 33), the team gets credit for your contribution.
As for the program, it uses ONLY idle CPU usage by default. So that means if you have anything more then a pentium 233MHz, you won't notice it. You can read more about it here http://folding.stanford.edu
It is recommend that you run one client/consle per CPU you have (or virtual CPU in the case of a P4 with HT).
~Hope this helps.
Carnival Forces
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so this means you're joining, right?Cryptic said:
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Help the [H]orde fight evil, cancerous proteins ->
(this is an actual screenshot i took of a protein my lappy was workin on. It's just coincidence that it looks like a skull and crossbones... but i think its awesome.) Yeah bro, you should definitely join up. My pal Viper87227 has a cpu contest that you might be interested in, as incentive. Fold 5000 points by March 1st, and you can enter to win.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=842054
(this is an actual screenshot i took of a protein my lappy was workin on. It's just coincidence that it looks like a skull and crossbones... but i think its awesome.) Yeah bro, you should definitely join up. My pal Viper87227 has a cpu contest that you might be interested in, as incentive. Fold 5000 points by March 1st, and you can enter to win.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=842054