Time to FOLD!!

[Mr-Me-II]

Folding@home - Main

Download this program, and join the team "SPAWNPOINT"

Run this on every computer you have that is connected to the internet, your moms computer, all your schools computers, library computers, and just leave it run - forever! Well, whenever your computer is on let it run in the background. RUNNING THIS PROGRAM WILL NOT IMPACT PERFORMANCE IN ANY WAY! It is produced by Stanford, and will only send out information on folding, your Stats, team, and basic information like that. No personal information will be sent out.

SpawnPoint Folding Team Number: 92445
Let's get SPAWNPOINT folding! Join the team!

*Stick me please*

[Labec]

Joined my server, and my laptop

[ooojerry]

Are we making proteins here? I remember last year in Biology that proteins when replicating DNA would fold themselves to create more nucleotides.

[sir-understeer]

What is folding?

[Brendan]

Got my 3ghz quad folding for Spawnpoint

[Serov]

Originally Posted by sir-understeer

What is folding?

please enlighten us.....slower..folks.

[Mr-Me-II]

Folding@Home - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


"Folding@Home (also known as FAH or F@H) is a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics. It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within Stanford University's chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay Pande. Folding@home is the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world, according to Guinness[1] and one of the world's largest distributed computing projects.[2] The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases."[3]
Accurate simulations of protein folding and misfolding enable the scientific community to better understand the development of many diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, BSE (mad cow disease), cancer, Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis and other aggregation-related diseases. [2] More fundamentally, understanding the process of protein folding — how biological molecules assemble themselves into a functional state — is one of the outstanding problems of molecular biology. So far, the Folding@home project has successfully simulated folding in the 5-10 microsecond range — a time scale thousands of times longer than it was previously thought possible to model.[4]
As of November 3, 2007, fifty-two scientific research papers have been published using the project's work.[5][6] A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report dated October 22, 2002 states that Folding@home distributed simulations of protein folding are demonstrably accurate.[7]
On September 16, 2007, the Folding@Home project officially attained a performance level higher than one petaFLOPS, becoming the first computing system of any kind to do so, although it had briefly peaked above one petaFLOPS in March 2007.[8][9]. In comparison, the fastest supercomputer in the world (as of September 2007, IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer) peaks at around 360 teraFLOPS."

[Cranix]

And for the most slower of us... more slower?... whatever... What does us using our computers have to do with folding for spawnpoint and these organizations?

[Mr-Me-II]

It's basically a networked supercomputer, doing complex calculations for research on the folding and misfolding in protiens. I created a Spawnpoint team so Spawnpoint could contribute, and to get the name out there.

A supercomputer is very very expensive to maintain and run, so Stanford decided to use a different method. Networked supercomputer. Instead of 10,000 processors in one room, they have 300,000 processors all over the world, all working together towards the same goal. This software turns your computer into a supercomputer node basically. This project has been running about 7 years now, and last month peaked a petaflop of performance, which is the combined power of xxx,xxx computers working together over the net. Thats several times more performance than any supercomputer, with 0 cost to the research teams running it (leaving more money for research, instead of computers).



If you want to contribute to the team and to the research teams running this project, download the software and join team number 92445

And I stress again, this won't impact computer performance in any way!

If you still want more information ask your science teacher what "protien folding" is

Folding@Home

[sir-understeer]

I see that as soon as I run this program, even on the lowest setting, that the CPU usage jumps straight up to 100%.

How does it not impact computer performance if the CPU is working 100% on this program?

[Mr-Me-II]

Originally Posted by sir-understeer

I see that as soon as I run this program, even on the lowest setting, that the CPU usage jumps straight up to 100%.

How does it not impact computer performance if the CPU is working 100% on this program?

End it, and look at system idle process. That also uses 100%. It will only use what your computer does not.

Run Source video stresstest with it running, and without it running, if you don't believe me

Why's everyone being all critical'n stuff.

EDIT:
Eh just did a bench, theres a slight drop in performance in programs like SuperPi, but I dont notice any difference in games.

[Brendan]

If you are really worried about it using your precious resources, you can have it only run when your screen saver is active . or if you have a multicore processor, run it only on one core. take a few minutes and set it up and help cure devastating diseases.

[Jihad]

my cousin went to stanford......ill try it on my psp