can someone please tell me what exactly i would require to do this, and what it is exactly? so far i love this site (im a newbie) and i would like to return the favor, but i have no idea what folding is
Folding at Home, F@h, is a distributive computing project run by Stanford to help understand why some proteins fold certain ways and others fold incorrectly. Proteins folding incorrectly can cause serious illnesses and diseases. Also, the program is researching causes for some cancers and other serious abnormalities that are occurring as people live longer. The program works by you downloading a small program and running it, it uses the spare idle clock cycles/time of your CPU or GPU to do the work that massive server farms used to do.
Meanwhile I have just cracked the top 400 of team 93, and I've been folding for at least twice as long as lunchb0x. Stupid PS3 cranks out a crapton of PPD.
This sounds like a great thing, guys. As soon as I upgrade my computer from windows 2003 to windows 7, which will be in about a month, I'll be sure to join up.
You should explain to/show him that the folding executables will not slow down the computer and that every little bit helps (see the page on folding@home where they talk about the research papers that have been published as a result of this)
Quick question, I'm considering folding, but I'm on limited bandwidth, I figure the F@H probably doesn't use too much bandwidth, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. So what kind of bandwidth does it use?
Also, is there a command-line version? If so, I may as well slap this on my VPS box too, as long as it doesn't use too much memory, I don't have much of that to spare.
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I'm running the Xeon SMP OSX console version and its pretty easy :]
Folding at Home, F@h, is a distributive computing project run by Stanford to help understand why some proteins fold certain ways and others fold incorrectly. Proteins folding incorrectly can cause serious illnesses and diseases. Also, the program is researching causes for some cancers and other serious abnormalities that are occurring as people live longer. The program works by you downloading a small program and running it, it uses the spare idle clock cycles/time of your CPU or GPU to do the work that massive server farms used to do.
-Bobby
My computers excess time is already dedicated to SETI for searching space.
But to each his own.
Yes, That is exactly what you should do if you want all your points to be on the same account.
-Bobby
Also, is there a command-line version? If so, I may as well slap this on my VPS box too, as long as it doesn't use too much memory, I don't have much of that to spare.