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Folding@Home - Help research diseases!
Posted: 19 Jul 2010, 00:54
by FLOZi
http://folding.stanford.edu/
Folding@home is a distributed computing project
Protein folding is linked to disease, such as Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers
Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
There are clients for Windows, Linux, (Intel) Mac and PS3.
Re: Folding@Home - Help research diseases!
Posted: 19 Jul 2010, 04:41
by Coresair
I plan to start folding as soon as my gtx 460 arrives, my cpu wont have enough muscle to get much done on its own.
Re: Folding@Home - Help research diseases!
Posted: 19 Jul 2010, 04:42
by FLOZi
My 8800GTS is chugging away slowly, but every little helps.
Re: Folding@Home - Help research diseases!
Posted: 19 Jul 2010, 05:27
by Coresair
How many points per day do you get? I figure ill get around 600-700 with my CPU, and around 10000 with my gtx 460 if the quick research I did was accurate. So is 11k ppd average or..?
Re: Folding@Home - Help research diseases!
Posted: 19 Jul 2010, 05:55
by FLOZi
No idea, I only discovered it earlier when looking at the GT460 review on guru3d.com (because of your mentioning of the 460 in the other thread.
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Also I get a BSOD to do with an infinite loop if i open the visualisation of the GPU client whilst Opera is running. Which is annoying, as its neat to look at.
Re: Folding@Home - Help research diseases!
Posted: 19 Jul 2010, 08:07
by Hobo Joe
Welcome to 5 years ago. :p
Re: Folding@Home - Help research diseases!
Posted: 19 Jul 2010, 09:32
by SinbadEV
I think my PS3 does that when I forget to turn it off.
Re: Folding@Home - Help research diseases!
Posted: 20 Jul 2010, 07:17
by SwiftSpear
My PC already overheats on me this summer, I've gotta buy one of those stupid air cans that blows dust all over your face. No folding at home for me right now.
Re: Folding@Home - Help research diseases!
Posted: 22 Jul 2010, 18:39
by Coresair
I am now folding for team EVGA @ 12k ppd.
Re: Folding@Home - Help research diseases!
Posted: 25 Jul 2010, 20:44
by zerver
Help improve the human genome -
don't research diseases.
http://www.darwinawards.com/