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  • lxskllr
    Member
    • Sep 2007
    • 13435
    #1

    Folding@home

    Now that cool weather's here, I'm leaving my computers on 24/7. I also fold to generate heat, and have the effort go to some cause. I created a SnusOn folding team, and if anyone wants to aid in protein research can join to add to the distributed computing project.

    Team SnusOn page...

    http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...teamnum=196202

    Folding@home main page...

    http://folding.stanford.edu/
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  • Premium Parrots
    Super Moderators
    • Feb 2008
    • 9758
    #2
    my wife does all the laundry here
    Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I killed because they were annoying......



    I've been wrong lots of times.  Lots of times I've thought I was wrong only to find out that I was right in the beginning.


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    • nachowayne
      Member
      • Nov 2008
      • 316
      #3
      Thanks for reminding me of this. I did the seti project for a while about 10 years ago and I have done the folding before. Never joined a team though and stopped doing it for some reason. I've installed it on three of my computers and we'll see how we do.

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      • lxskllr
        Member
        • Sep 2007
        • 13435
        #4
        I created a distributed computing group here...

        http://www.snuson.com/forum/group.php?groupid=20

        It's for all projects, but especially Folding@home. It's kind of fun competing with other groups and members within a group. Some sites take it VERY seriously, and their members devote a lot of resources to the project. It's especially big in overclocker circles. SnusOn doesn't have the membership to be competitive, but it's still cool to to do, and the effort goes to a good cause. Help put Team SnusOn on the map! :^)

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        • desirexe
          Member
          • Feb 2008
          • 1170
          #5
          I'm with PP's wife - I do all the folding in my home. I've never heard of folding@home and am trying really hard to understand the concept but I dunno if I am catching on. From wikipedia, and I admit to not reading the entire entry, cuz most of it went right over my head..but am I understanding correctly that my computer would sort of act as a hard drive for these nerds to store data in support of their research on human diseases?? *I say 'nerds' in the most sincerest way...I love nerds!

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          • nachowayne
            Member
            • Nov 2008
            • 316
            #6
            Yeah it's basically a way to donate some time(or your computer's time actually) to a worthy cause. It's not real hard on the computer either. I don't 'notice a slowdown on my machines when it is running, and I pay pretty close attention to that kind of stuff.

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            • lxskllr
              Member
              • Sep 2007
              • 13435
              #7
              No, it's using cpu cycles. By harnessing computers from around the world, they can complete complex modeling that would be virtually impossible for one computer to accomplish.You get a little piece of work to crunch, and the results get aggregated at Stanford. Think of it as a multicore computer, but instead of 2 or 4 cores, it's thousands of cores linked through the network.

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              • ratcheer
                Member
                • Jul 2010
                • 621
                #8
                I use Linux. Is the client Windows only?

                Tim

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                • lxskllr
                  Member
                  • Sep 2007
                  • 13435
                  #9
                  Originally posted by ratcheer View Post
                  I use Linux. Is the client Windows only?

                  Tim
                  Yea, unfortunately the easy client is Windows only. I just followed the directions here on my Ubuntu box, and it seemed to work pretty well...
                  http://folding.stanford.edu/English/LinUNIGuide

                  There's a program for Ubuntu called Origami which worked well in Ubuntu 8.04, but it seems to be borked for 10.04. I had to use the instructions from the above page to get it going.

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                  • ratcheer
                    Member
                    • Jul 2010
                    • 621
                    #10
                    Thanks. I doubt that I will mess with it. A few years ago, I crunched for a medical research org called United Devices. It was a fair amount of trouble. When they completed their project, I stopped too.

                    Tim

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