DJ Phaze Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 When you are just browsing the net, or word-processing - are you *really* using all of your computer's resources?? Put those spare resources (CPU power, memory etc) to a GOOD CAUSE. Stanford University has a distributed-computing project, all about protein folding - and they need your *spare* unused computer-power to help them. It's a project contributed to by 1000's of Teams - or you can do it individually - who are contributing to the computation of very technical and detailed experiments.. Read more about it here -> http://folding.stanford.edu/ How to join... 1. Download the client at http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html (Or directly here for XP - http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/Folding@Home503.EXE ) 2. When it asks for Team Number - type in 42023 3. Just forget it's there! It will download data to process, and do it in the background - you won't even know it is there, as it is on the lowest priority for the CPU. When it's finished, it will upload the results to Stanford's Server - and then download a new set of data to compute ;)) Clients available for: Windows (all) MacOSX Linux Happy Folding! Questions? Just post below :D :: Phaze :: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbanPoet Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 Ooooo I've always wanted to participate in one of these mega-calculatory jobbies! I guess protein folding is better than some god-awful mathmatical equation. It's a nice novelty to have I guess, I'll just leave it running whilst downloading overnight or something... :D Oh, and who's a part of this 'team' then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Phaze Posted January 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 The idea of the software, is that it runs whenever your PC is on - you won't notice the performance difference if it was working or not.... As for Team members? I'm not sure - as people haven't replied to this post (apart from you...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishwog Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 I bet I could notice the difference in performance, I'm gonna sign up :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbanPoet Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 The idea of the software, is that it runs whenever your PC is on - you won't notice the performance difference if it was working or not.... As for Team members? I'm not sure - as people haven't replied to this post (apart from you...) ← Yer you're right, I've noticed very little performance change, even though Active CPU is always at 100%... I'm only ont webby, so maybe I'll notice when doing graphics or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Phaze Posted January 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 I bet I could notice the difference in performance, I'm gonna sign up ^_^ ← As Folding@Home is designed to have the LOWEST processor priority, you will not notice the difference...... If ANY application wants to do something, then the processor will stop using Folding@Home and concentrate on the application.... Like I said, you wouldn't notice it's there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 Mines up and running :turned: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 What does it exactly do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickycoleman Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 done! i have no idea what your on about but i might aswell out my pc to use! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 i gather its for medical research on protein folding ? or were just doing somones medical degree work :turned: either way tis a good cause Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 i gather its for medical research on protein folding ? or were just doing somones medical degree work :turned: either way tis a good cause ← The first one ^_^ And I don't think it's a good cause if you're doing someone's homework ^_^ But it's for research for drug interactions and possible proteins etc. Who have you got everyone folding for mr Phaze? ^_^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Phaze Posted January 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 It's for protein folding - biological research at Standford University (USA). Have a look on their website, as I'm sure the results they have analysed have had "real-world" contributions for the good of mankind....... something in the disease department, if I remember correctly... Wouldn't you feel something, if your computer contributed to finding out a cure for some terminal disease? Especially when it has no impact on what you do on your computer - performance wise :turned:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 can you run more than one on a pc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extreme_biker0 Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 (edited) Joined. Hope i'm the one that discovers the cure for AIDS! Our team statistics don't look too good! Edited January 15, 2005 by Extreme_biker0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 can you run more than one on a pc? ← Wouldnt be much point even if you could... then you'd have 2 going at half the speed :o And yeah, how come the stats arent updated? Ive done 130 odd of 400 frames, whatever that means :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biketrialler Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py...e&teamnum=42023 Humm howcome us as users dont appear on there and it doesnt say we've done anything :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extreme_biker0 Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 Your computer wont upload the results until it has finished the work unit, eg all 400 fromes. When it does this it will show up. Thats what i think happens anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_seamons Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 Joined yesterday. I've done 160/400 frames. Can't even notice it's there, which is funky (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biketrialler Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 Ive got nothing against leaving it on except that it doesnt work alongside nfsu2 - keeps switching out to the desktop when folding is loaded :o I do however have my server box that has minimal load due to just routing internet and running downloads... can run it on there 24/7 (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Phaze Posted January 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 (edited) Wouldnt be much point even if you could... then you'd have 2 going at half the speed (Y) And yeah, how come the stats arent updated? Ive done 130 odd of 400 frames, whatever that means :S ← Unless you've got a dual-cpu system lying around...... Ive seen in some of the PC hobbyist Forums (Mostly Overclockers) that some people have 8-CPU Servers folding for them...... that's 8 instances of Folding@Home going at the same time.... ======================= And for the problem of trying to run it with NFSU2, make a simple batch file which closes Folding@Home, then opens up the game for you :P) Then all you need to do is double-click one file :P) Edited January 16, 2005 by DJ Phaze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Phaze Posted January 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 Ive got nothing against leaving it on except that it doesnt work alongside nfsu2 - keeps switching out to the desktop when folding is loaded (Y) I do however have my server box that has minimal load due to just routing internet and running downloads... can run it on there 24/7 :P ← Doh! That's the quote I should have included...... sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biketrialler Posted January 17, 2005 Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 Fair play, but im not really that bothered about some random program that doesnt affect me, to need to use it that efficiently. I just start it myself through an icon when im going out to college in the morning, simple as that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted January 17, 2005 Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 ill whap it on my 3 machines which are on 24/7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Phaze Posted January 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 Ive got nothing against leaving it on except that it doesnt work alongside nfsu2 - keeps switching out to the desktop when folding is loaded (Y) I do however have my server box that has minimal load due to just routing internet and running downloads... can run it on there 24/7 (Y) ← I've discovered there's a console version - designed for people who game! It doesn't pop up every 3 minutes - just sits there, and uses the free resources.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_seamons Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Gah. We suck. I am however top of the league :blink: (Ignore the fact that there's only 2 people in it so far :() Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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