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**Duke3d87** · 12-02-2004, 06:13 PM

Folding@home

What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, and Parkinson's disease.
What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

To join our team, download folding@home
Install folding@home and right click on the display and go to configure
On the first option page, they will ask for a team number enter: 40826
Our team stats can be found here

in case you care, my stats:

deadly-app · 12-04-2004, 01:41 PM

Yup, everyone please fold if you can :)
NebulaD is owning up with 48 or something WU's, but im chugging along :D

Tech_Pro · 12-05-2004, 11:00 PM

so now in idiotic terms, what is folding? yeah i'm that stupid.

**Duke3d87** · 12-05-2004, 11:13 PM

its a program that helps predict how protiens will act and helps find cures for diseases.

daake_07 · 12-05-2004, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by deadly-app

Yup, everyone please fold if you can :)
NebulaD is owning up with 48 or something WU's, but im chugging along :D

48 is insane. i have 3 done right now, but im only running one processor. but im still in 4th on the team. i will hopefully get my new processor from newegg and get a second computer running

Dai_Shan · 12-06-2004, 09:45 AM

Ugh....finished another WU, and it didn't load up to the database, cause my internet was actin up!! :( So just lost a full unit...that sucked.

And now its having trouble even with my internet fixed....

Might have to reinstall...

Nebula , any tips for this issue?

buckley · 12-06-2004, 09:49 AM

yeah i seem to have some problems with f@H, its causing quite a bit of crashing on my pc, sometimes it will just randomly reboot itself and then i get that, "recovered from serious error" BS and i dont know what caused it...

im running at stock speeds, not OC'd..... i dunno

Dai_Shan · 12-06-2004, 09:57 AM

What kinda temps are you getting after like 30minutes of running it?

This program causes a good amount of cpu load. Can cause overheating on a nonOC'd system (if you have lack of cooling).

Check temps, and then also you can reduce the amount of cpu % used in the configure/advanced options. Try loweriing it to like 60-80% or so.

simba · 12-06-2004, 10:31 AM

this is great... glad to see Xoxide finally doing this!!!

I'll give rep to people who are folding... just pm me!!!

due to a limited number rep oppurtunities I have in a 24 hour period... I will tr to keep a list and check them off as I get requests...

NebulaD · 12-06-2004, 10:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dai_Shan

Ugh....finished another WU, and it didn't load up to the database, cause my internet was actin up!! :( So just lost a full unit...that sucked.

And now its having trouble even with my internet fixed....

Might have to reinstall...

Nebula , any tips for this issue?

there is a way to resend finished work units that didnt send properly, although im not entirely sure how to do it.
maybe I can find some answers for you on the folding web site.

lethal_dosage · 12-06-2004, 11:10 AM

For people who are wondering more about what it is and stuff:

http://www.teamshort-media.com/videos/foldflash2.html

I will fold once im done folding in my Chemistry class, get extra credit for it :) I got 158 WU for them and 15,196 points. So im doin pretty good.

Dai_Shan · 12-06-2004, 11:41 AM

Alrighty finally found some info regarding resending units and such.

http://forum.folding-community.org/v...ghlight=resend thread on the F@H forum.

-send all

Dugoth · 12-06-2004, 11:41 AM

Hmm...tried it for a bit, but I just prefer Seti@home...and now Boinc of course as well :)

NebulaD · 12-06-2004, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dai_Shan

Alrighty finally found some info regarding resending units and such.

http://forum.folding-community.org/v...ghlight=resend thread on the F@H forum.

-send all

cool

I just figured out that I've been ****ing up a lot of Work Units because of an unstable overclock. I'll have to bring it down a notch.

deadly-app · 12-06-2004, 12:36 PM

heh :D
F@H is working fine on my system, no restarts or anything.

@ buckley, im thinking its not due to it, and rather a driver or hardware issue. I had serious error reboots when my ram was bad

As well as badly installed gfx drivers :)

buckley · 12-06-2004, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by deadly-app

heh :D
F@H is working fine on my system, no restarts or anything.

@ buckley, im thinking its not due to it, and rather a driver or hardware issue. I had serious error reboots when my ram was bad

As well as badly installed gfx drivers :)

well that may be so but i had absolutely no probs before installed F@H.... i would love to run this prog, i just cant get the damn thing to work right!

NebulaD · 12-06-2004, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by buckley

well that may be so but i had absolutely no probs before installed F@H.... i would love to run this prog, i just cant get the damn thing to work right!

what exactly is the problem you keep running into?

buckley · 12-06-2004, 01:43 PM

well when i boot up the computer F@H starts automatically, then after about 2 mins it will lock up....and eventually restart itself... i know its not my temps, they are about 48-50*C for the full load, (XP 2500+) which is normal, and have run at that temp for a long time

i may need to check my ram timings...a while backed i tried to push it from 3 to 2.5... dunno if that would be the prob tho

Dugoth · 12-06-2004, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by buckley

well when i boot up the computer F@H starts automatically, then after about 2 mins it will lock up....and eventually restart itself... i know its not my temps, they are about 48-50*C for the full load, (XP 2500+) which is normal, and have run at that temp for a long time

i may need to check my ram timings...a while backed i tried to push it from 3 to 2.5... dunno if that would be the prob tho

It could be if your RAM is slightly unstable....the at home projects are strongly memory intensive and can have major performance boosts and drawbacks based upon the performance of the RAM

NebulaD · 12-06-2004, 01:51 PM

hmmm most likely is your ram locking up your computer