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What is Folding@Home? A Stanford University project to find out how proteins fold.
Why it's important: Proteins folding wrong causes all kinds of diseases, like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and forms of cancer. Folding@Home uses novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. Through Folding@home, scientists now have the horsepower to study the mechanics of protein folding. With its ability to share the workload among hundred of thousands of computers economically, Folding@home can help scientists understand how proteins snap, or don’t, into their predestined shapes — and may help to explain the origins of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and apparently unrelated diseases. We're fueling research that could end all that.
How it works: You download a safe, tested program that is certified by Stanford University. It gets work from Stanford, runs calculations using your spare computer power, and sends the results back to the University.
Is it safe? Yes! Folding@Home rarely effects computer performance in any way and won't compromise your privacy in any way. It only uses the computing power you aren't using so it doesn't slow down other programs.
How to starting folding for Team FreeRepublic: 1.)Download the folding program from Stanford University's folding download page. Type in your desired username. 2) Type in 36120 for the team number. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - if you get the number wrong, you won't be folding for team FreeRepublic! 3) The third question asks, "Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service?" - We recommend you answer YES. Otherwise you will have to manually start the program after every reboot.
How can my computer help?Even if he were given exclusive access to all of the world’s supercomputers, Standford still wouldn’t have as much processing power as they get from the supercluster of people’s desktop systems Folding@home relies on. Modern supercomputers are essentially a cluster of hundreds of processors linked by fast networking. But Stanford needed the power of hundreds of thousands of processors, not just hundreds.
There's no reason to not get involved! It's free, easy, and you can know you're helping every minute without lifting a finger.
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Laundry bump!
To answer your question from the other thread: your points are pretty much normal, I believe. I'm averaging about 75 a day myself per CPU. If you're not doing anything else with your older computers, by all means throw them--our team's success isn't dominated by one person, but by many people pitching in their CPUs to make it work. :-)
Be a while before I add to the bottom line here - I have three boxes going, two of which are crunching 181 point units, and the third is crunching a 600 point unit. But it should be a nice bump in a few days ;)
OK - I'm running .... or rather folding
I have read the posts and still have absolutely no idea what this thread is about but if you are kicking commie butt at DU I am behind you all the way!
Sigh! I am in awe of the crying baby seal, I think it is really hilarious and distinctive. I'm sad to see other people eager to replace it. Keep it!! Make it bigger!
My download is complete, but, I didn't see where I was to type in the number--36120, it just asked for user name. What did I do wrong?
Ok, I joined up.
I figured why not.
In the name of scientific research - and defeating liberals.
God I love science.
bttt
Just installed and fired it up for team 36120. Got a 3GHZ PIII sitting idle (exept for Tony Snow stream currently running) while I work on my other work PC here at the home office, so should have plenty of extra CPU cycles :)
BTW, I noticed one of the posts in that DU thread you linked to that there are mutiple Freeper groups??
WATCHING????????? We are at 1012... we are very, very close.
That's cool. Find me a link to a Mac OS 9.2.2 version of the program, and I'll start a couple of the machines here (all on broadband) working on the problem. ;') Let's see... I've also got a W95 machine that's doin' nothing, along with a WFW 3.11 that is old, but otherwise in spectacular shape.
I'm in....folding away like a bat out o' hell. 272 frames done....Using the console way. I see somone else has the screen name Drango. %#@(*%! I guess I need to change the screen name I've chosen but have no idea how, and I'm wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to lazy to RTFM
Top 1,000 laundry bump!
Have a flower in my tray as of a couple hours ago. I run 24/7.
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