Folding@Home

[OverdrivePrime]

Hm, just downloaded for my old G5 tower. Anyone know what kind of network draw Folding has vs something like Seti@home (which is what I was working on before)?

[Lemonus]

Just downloaded F@H, will join the team as soon as I get some sleep.

UPDATE: I set the team code to ours, how do I see how long my current WU is gonna take?

[Phishfood]

Hm, just downloaded for my old G5 tower. Anyone know what kind of network draw Folding has vs something like Seti@home (which is what I was working on before)?

eh, not a lot. Its a few meg per work unit if you have large units.

Last WU for me:
[03:01:42] - Expanded 375685 -> 1807444 (decompressed 481.1 percent)
Downloaded

[08:54:21] Done: 582264 -> 560356 (compressed to 96.2 percent)
Uploaded

so, under a meg in 5 hours. I've seen 10Mb WUs, but they don't finish in 5 hours.

[Lemonus]

Ok, sorry. F@H was slowing the computer down a lot, so I had to turn it off.

[Al'izh'dheg]

Hey all. Just wanted to poke in and say hello. Hope everybody is enjoying their Folding! :)

[StickMan]

Nearly four years after having prompted the Giants in the Playground Fold at Home team I've finally finished my first work unit. And will be folding more as I leave the new laptop to fold away.

[Al'izh'dheg]

Congratulations on completing your first work unit! May you enjoy many more in the coming days/weeks/months/years. :)

[Artemis97]

I was just looking into this, curious, and discovered that you all have been awarded a Certificate as of today.

Congratulations!

[Al'izh'dheg]

Horray for the Playground! Great job, everybody. :)

[Phishfood]

What I love is that they have had nearly 100 published papers from this. :D

Its so awesome to increase the sum of human knowledge with otherwise wasted CPU cycles. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to find aliens too but I suspect protein folding is a LOT more likely to have practical applications and results. Like this:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/1980...s-discover.htm

[irenicObserver]

Would bringing up Foldit be appropriate?

[Gol_Stoan]

You have a new team member! Been using Folding@Home since about December when I finally got DSL, just now remembered that y'all have a folding team. :-)

Processed 66 work units already, I am running the GPU version on my Nvidia GeForce GTX 560.

Huntington's runs in my mother's side of the family, so I have a very personal stake in seeing what comes out of this.

[noparlpf]

This came up in Cell Biology this morning! I was all, "Hey, I've heard of that from the gaming forum I hang out on!" (Weird looks abound.)
If this were my own computer I'd totally do this, but seeing as how mine isn't really functional and this one is borrowed, I haven't installed this.

[TechnoScrabble]

A few friends and I have been doing something similar for a nearby college that does synthetic biology, I'll see if they want to join in on this, though they may not want to, I still will.
Also, getting free bacteria that form into crystallized radios is fun. Even if they don't work most of the time and just transmit a strange hum on a low frequency.

EDIT: My pal mike just saw me making this post, apparently his grandfather has Alzheimer's, so count him in, too.

[carpentron]

i'm in on this

Edit: first fold done! 14 hours for a ~10mb WU... that is a lot of calculations damn

[Woodzyowl]

I'll join in as well. Thinking about this, it seems like I *might* be able to convince my school to add some of its computers to our effort. Would anyone have an objection to that?

[Fax Celestis]

I'm in. I'll post on my Facebook and try to drag other people in too. Already finished my first WU.

[The_Admiral]

Just joined and 13 hours 31 minutes left.

[Fax Celestis]

Also, this is related.

[Gadora]

Well, I've just joined in. I'm a bit leery about leery about leaving my laptop running at 100% CPU usage, nearly 24/7. On the other hand, I usually leave it on almost 24/7 anyway and, since it's usually peaking at around 20% CPU usage, that's a lot of wasted potential...

We'll see how it goes.

[Dr Bwaa]

I'll be putting this on both my computers as soon as I get home. They might as well be doing something useful while I'm at work all day.

Edit: all cores chugging away. This is good stuff; I don't know why I didn't jump on board earlier.

[Elaborigen]

I just found out about this. Signed up.

[Temotei]

I can't believe I missed this for so long. I just downloaded, installed, and joined the team.

[Diva De]

I used to do this. Now I am doing it again!

[Dark Elf Bard]

Done!!!

[Teln]

Hey there, fellow folders! I've got a quick question--what does it mean when a work unit says its status is "Update_Core", and what exactly do I need to do to update said core?

[scienceguy8]

Built a gaming rig for my office last summer and started folding immediately after it got built. Apparently, I've done 179 work units so far, but any future units will be done for the GitP Team as of today. Hooray science! Hooray distributed computing!

[Defiant]

There are still folders out there, yes? I've just recently remembered about this phenomenon, and have spread it to all my laptops and suggested it to my closest friends.

[AngelSword]

Not sure how recently this happened, but the folding via PS3 has ended.

[Defiant]

Not sure how recently this happened, but the folding via PS3 has ended.

It's unfortunate, since the PS3 contributions were quite substantial. As far as I can tell, it was because PlaystationHome was shut down, and the FAH platform was attached to it. It's unfortunate that they did not simply port it or redesign it somehow.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...type=userstats

Number 2 donor with massive contributions was PS3. I hope they bring it back somehow for the PS4.