Folding at Home is a distributed client computing effort by Stanford University intended to help understand how proteins assemble or "fold." Exactly how proteins assemble themselves is a mystery, and why the proteins sometimes fold improperly or "misfold" is also a mystery. Quite a few serious diseases are related to the misfolding of proteins, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, to name two. By donating your CPU's spare cycles, you are contributing to the effort to understand how the proteins fold, which is the first step to understanding how basic proteins work and how we might treat these diseases. Most forums have similar projects. I created a team for BigSoccer. To join the BigSoccer Team, all you need to do is download F@H software: http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/download.html . . . when it's running, right-click the system-tray icon, "configure" and select team 47724 You can also change teams if already signed up. BigSoccer Team Stats: http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47724 Sign up and let's put BigSoccer in the Top100 teams F@H FAQs: http://folding.stanford.edu/faq.html
MacRumor's Team: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=21908 MozillaZine's Team: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=138693 Overclockers' Team: http://www.overclockersclub.com/folding.php EOC's Team: http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=24413 (you get the picture ) ------- Official Stanford folding forum: http://forum.folding-community.org/
Before I get more negative reps --> THIS IS NOT SPAM. This is a serious attempt to help you donate your processor’s spare cycles (when it’s not computing for you, that is) to the incredibly complex study of protein folding; possible uses for the data including curing many forms of cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and all sorts of other diseases.
bigsoccer Team Ranking 12288 of 41449 http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47724 at this rate we could be in the top 5000 in 2 weeks
Cool. I signed up. And since I work at the National Institutes of Health, I doubt the IT department will complain.
Make sure you're part of Team 47724 You will appear on the stats page when you completed a WU (meaning Work Unit). The database updates every 3 hours so you might have to wait for your units to show up. If you're not part of the BS team yet, right click anywhere on the Folding@Home's page and select "Configure" and enter 47724 in the Team Number box. Happy folding!
Analyzing a protein’s possible folding steps as it crumples up into a 3-D knot is daunting task, even for a supercomputer, because the molecular backbone of a protein can fold in trillions of different ways. While several supercomputers used together could handle the job, time slots on existing supercomputers are very expensive. Through Folding@home, Stanford has the ability to share the workload among hundred of thousands of computers economically. Each computer in the mix boosts performance, allowing scientists to tackle more difficult problems and solve research puzzles faster or more accurately.
is it normal to have a WU that is 3000 frames? It says it is going to take me 2 months to complete that damn thing.
up to #7,921 http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47724 My WU should be done today. I got a monster WU with 12,500 frames.
Cool FAH stats page -> http://fahstats.com/t.php?t=47724 Bigsoccer Team history (points/day): http://fahstats.com/tp.php?t=47724
is anybody else still doing this? I am but I am climbing the ranks rather quickly, not because of a fast computer but because of the lack of WU the people are doing above me.