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**Duke3d87** · 12-08-2005, 04:06 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:

For those who do not understand all the scientific jargon, here's a flash video that will help you understand what it is all about.

silverphoenix · 12-08-2005, 04:57 PM

Yay it is back again, Hopefully once I've applied some AC5 to go along with my new TT fans I can OC this mother and start steaming through some WU's.

joebob764 · 12-08-2005, 04:57 PM

Ok, I've been folding for a few weeks now, and am wondering if we should use this thread now that the old one is closed. Second of all, my average number of points per hour is WAY off, it says I have 53 or so, and I thought that was off, and I got 80 or so, each time that I checked, I was wondering why this is, and then wondering how to get the small signature thing that you have, giving brief amounts of stats.

silverphoenix · 12-08-2005, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by joebob764

Ok, I've been folding for a few weeks now, and am wondering if we should use this thread now that the old one is closed. Second of all, my average number of points per hour is WAY off, it says I have 53 or so, and I thought that was off, and I got 80 or so, each time that I checked, I was wondering why this is, and then wondering how to get the small signature thing that you have, giving brief amounts of stats.

I looked up in the FAQ's, but many people have somehow created dynamic gifs or jpegs, where by entering your username and team # in some part of the url to the gif or jpeg tailors it to your stats, just go to the F@H's forums and take a look.

RedRoseWolF · 12-08-2005, 05:26 PM

I'm starting to do it...

skeeder · 12-08-2005, 09:24 PM

Welcome aboard Red. Its simple. Just leave it alone. I will note one thing for future users.

*FOLDING DOES HAVE ISSUES WITH SOME GAMES, IF YOUR GAME WILL NOT LOAD OR MINIMIZES ALOT FOLDING COULD BE CAUSING THIS. YOU CAN SIMPLY EXIT OUT OF F@H AND START IT AFTER YOUR DONE GAMING.

silverphoenix · 12-08-2005, 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skeeder

Welcome aboard Red. Its simple. Just leave it alone. I will note one thing for future users.

*FOLDING DOES HAVE ISSUES WITH SOME GAMES, IF YOUR GAME WILL NOT LOAD OR MINIMIZES ALOT FOLDING COULD BE CAUSING THIS. YOU CAN SIMPLY EXIT OUT OF F@H AND START IT AFTER YOUR DONE GAMING.

or you can just use cmd line, its the GUI that does this.

skeeder · 12-08-2005, 09:29 PM

correct. but I like the little GUI and it doesn't bother me...its alot simpler that way...(to me)

Serious Sam · 12-09-2005, 09:14 AM

I play all my games with F@H running at 100%. No probs yet. BTW, I'm rank 20 right behind Mechem. Dang you!

DaemonDraxx · 12-09-2005, 09:19 AM

This again? I'll be sure to get a few 3-4GHz "zombies" to do my work...

mechem · 12-09-2005, 02:36 PM

yeah i can play SOME games with F@H

BF2 and halo wont

but civ4 will along with several other less punishing ones.

joebob764 · 12-09-2005, 03:59 PM

im hitting aroudn 70 points a day (even though on that one site it says 53), but after christmas, my new rig will pwn. amd x2 3800+? oh yea. by the way, i cant wait until they finish the version that uses the video card (i was reading about it on their website).

**Duke3d87** · 12-09-2005, 04:48 PM

where do you see that? My X800XT is waiting! BTW, the ATI x1x00 series are better at that then the nVidia 7800 and below series b/c of the way that they are desgiend.

RedRoseWolF · 12-09-2005, 06:01 PM

I'd agree with you on that duke if you had an 8 instead of that second x because I didn't see too many good reviews for the 13 and 16 series...

and I run F@H when I'm not doing anything else and when it gets cold it my room...i stop if it i start sweating (small room, heat gets trapped fast)

mechem · 12-09-2005, 08:01 PM

i know this is probably a total blind shot, but you think it could be possible to somehow instruct a GPU to perform CPU operations?

Serious Sam · 12-09-2005, 08:02 PM

WOw, sounds deep...I'd ask Daemon.

mechem · 12-09-2005, 08:04 PM

well i mean, its just a proc right?

i mean, we have add on cards for procs (m2 will have one) and idk i think it would be possible to simply run a F@H on a GPU.

poptya · 12-09-2005, 08:15 PM

I installed F@H awhile back but it pushed my CPU over 55C so i had to uninstall. After i install my zalman 9500 at christmas ill be back up and running :)

Burton560 · 12-09-2005, 09:15 PM

whats folding@home?

mechem · 12-09-2005, 09:27 PM

read the top burton. its the program used for folding.

55C isnt that hot brotha. i hit 53 if im OC'd really high on watercooling.