Folding@Home

[Gigzaholic]

hello people. I was around here when they called this place www.vcdhelp.com. lol that was a while ago, anyway it wouldn't let me register for a while. yesterday I finally got this to work. so here I am. also to get on topic with the thread title, there is a program called folding@home http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ . It was developed by stanford university to simulate how proteins work inside the body. after you download the program, it downloads a copy of the protein it has to simulate and it takes a while for it to finish the simulation, after which it sends the report to stanford. the goodthing about this program is that it only utilizes the amount of cpu power you set it to utilize. it also only works with leftover cpu cycles, which is good because then you can compress video, play games while still helping stanford and the medical industry to come up with cures to diseases. I was introduced to this when a person from www.extremeoverclocking.com came to my main forum www.overclocking.com. anyway to make a long story short we combined teams and now our forums are together forming team# 11314. here is the url to the thread at EOC.com http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=110216
here are our team rankings http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teamstats as you can see we are behind macosx team. we would love to get you guys to join our team 11314. in the end basically you have no performance to loose and you are helping find cures to diseases. thanks for your time folks.

[flaninacupboard]

i mentioned folding@home a while back in OT, can't remember if anyone responded. i'm running my own team, team athlon
Not doing too well at the moment, but not all my machines are set up yet

[Cobra]

That's a bit like this one I'm running:

http://www.grid.org/projects/cancer/

[Tommyknocker]

hello people. I was around here when they called this place www.vcdhelp.com. lol that was a while ago, anyway it wouldn't let me register for a while. yesterday I finally got this to work. so here I am. also to get on topic with the thread title, there is a program called folding@home http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ . It was developed by stanford university to simulate how proteins work inside the body. after you download the program, it downloads a copy of the protein it has to simulate and it takes a while for it to finish the simulation, after which it sends the report to stanford. the goodthing about this program is that it only utilizes the amount of cpu power you set it to utilize. it also only works with leftover cpu cycles, which is good because then you can compress video, play games while still helping stanford and the medical industry to come up with cures to diseases. I was introduced to this when a person from www.extremeoverclocking.com came to my main forum www.overclocking.com. anyway to make a long story short we combined teams and now our forums are together forming team# 11314. here is the url to the thread at EOC.com http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=110216
here are our team rankings http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teamstats as you can see we are behind macosx team. we would love to get you guys to join our team 11314. in the end basically you have no performance to loose and you are helping find cures to diseases. thanks for your time folks.

Sounds like the old bottle cap and dialysis machine crap to me.

[flaninacupboard]

Sounds like the old bottle cap and dialysis machine crap to me.

Which means.........?

[Cobra]

http://www.grid.org/projects/cancer/

If I create a "VideoHelp" team, would anyone be interested in joining?

[Tommyknocker]

Sounds like the old bottle cap and dialysis machine crap to me.

Which means.........?

They want you to think you are helping mankind by doing nothing of no worth whatsoever.

[flaninacupboard]

Sounds like the old bottle cap and dialysis machine crap to me.

Which means.........?

They want you to think you are helping mankind by doing nothing of no worth whatsoever.

oh, well when you put it like that, it makes me glad t has some worth. sure cobra, this machine just idles all day.

[Cobra]

It is a very interesting area of biology, and more knowledge of protein folding could prove to be extremely useful.

I'm running the UD cancer project because it is generating results that are making a much greater impact on research than protein folding is just now.

It is true that these programs don't encroach on the power of your machine - they are well-designed and totally invisible.

Cobra

[Tommyknocker]

Maybe one day I will understand what you just said. But today ain't that day.

[Cobra]

flan,

I'm making the team now. Click on the link, download and install the agent. My nickname is Cobra [VideoHelp].

By the way, it's totally your choice but here's how to choose one or the other (smallpox or cancer, or leave it be for equal amounts):

http://forum.grid.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=8800

I'll post back when I've created the team.

Cobra

[flaninacupboard]

Maybe one day I will understand what you just said. But today ain't that day.

well with a 1.1ghz machine you're no loss. let's hope you find dictionary.com useful and perhaps in another fortnight or so you can be up to speed.

[Tommyknocker]

flan,

I'm making the team now. Click on the link, download and install the agent. My nickname is Cobra [VideoHelp].

By the way, it's totally your choice but here's how to choose one or the other (smallpox or cancer, or leave it be for equal amounts):

http://forum.grid.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=8800

I'll post back when I've created the team.

Cobra

Why not post back with some of the cures these teams have helped find. Oh, that's right, we haven't cured anything since...Shoot, I can't remember the last disease we cured.

[Cobra]

The team is "VideoHelp (www.videohelp .com)". I couldn't help the space - that's the way it's set out.

Tommyknocker - I didn't say they'd found a cure. I said the data is important, that's all.

[Tommyknocker]

The team is "VideoHelp (www.videohelp .com)". I couldn't help the space - that's the way it's set out.

Tommyknocker - I didn't say they'd found a cure. I said the data is important, that's all.

I am saying the whole thing sounds like a crock. Can you give me any hard data how this is helping? I mean there must some numbers somewhere....

[adam]

Does the transfer of the information to and from them require much bandwidth because I'm only on dial up? If not then I'd like to do this. My new pc I'm building should be able to fold the crap out of some proteins.

[flaninacupboard]

i think the unit i just downloaded was 80k. that's a ten minute unit on my 2600+

[adam]

Yeah I know but you have to send them the results of your simulations otherwise I don't know what they'd get out of it. I assume there's got to be some form of continual exchange of information, that's the only thing that would prevent me from doing this.

[Cobra]

I see where you're coming from. You would expect them to be very up-front with figures if they had something worthwhile - I would.

I think it is still in a basic phase. They're testing as many permutations of molecules against enzymes known to be involved in cancer, and the data is being collected. Once they have the data, I assume it gives them a good "stepping stone" to work on their research from a more enlightened perspective.

Nevertheless, if it's run partly by the University of Oxford then it must hold some value.

Cobra

[Tommyknocker]

i think the unit i just downloaded was 80k. that's a ten minute unit on my 2600+

Go ahead, Sisyphus, keep pushing that rock. You're get it up that hill eventually....

[flaninacupboard]

Yeah I know but you have to send them the results of your simulations otherwise I don't know what they'd get out of it. I assume there's got to be some form of continual exchange of information, that's the only thing that would prevent me from doing this.

no, you download a unit and it prcesses it. the results are cached, compressed and then sent once the unit is complete. i used to do seti@home on dialup and it was acceptable.

Go ahead, Sisyphus, keep pushing that rock. You're get it up that hill eventually....

If you're not interested in the topic go away.

[Ripper2860]

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