Agozer Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 Maybe I'm just stupid... Mr. G, be so nice and explain what's the deal with Folding@Home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted May 31, 2004 Author Share Posted May 31, 2004 Maybe I'm just stupid... Mr. G, be so nice and explain what's the deal with Folding@Home?It was explained in the first few pages of this thread...but I'll explain it again. Folding@home is a distributed computing project that folds and unfolds the tertiary structure of proteins. This helps scientists find out how each protein does it because all protein diseases are botched up tertiary structures. This knowledge will help scientists find remedies to many illnesses and conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 Maybe I'm just stupid... Mr. G, be so nice and explain what's the deal with Folding@Home?It was explained in the first few pages of this thread...but I'll explain it again. Folding@home is a distributed computing project that folds and unfolds the tertiary structure of proteins. This helps scientists find out how each protein does it because all protein diseases are botched up tertiary structures. This knowledge will help scientists find remedies to many illnesses and conditions. Thank you for the explanation...So, everyone who folds is somehow connected to a super computer somewhere that does stuff with the tertiary structures or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted May 31, 2004 Author Share Posted May 31, 2004 Maybe I'm just stupid... Mr. G, be so nice and explain what's the deal with Folding@Home?It was explained in the first few pages of this thread...but I'll explain it again. Folding@home is a distributed computing project that folds and unfolds the tertiary structure of proteins. This helps scientists find out how each protein does it because all protein diseases are botched up tertiary structures. This knowledge will help scientists find remedies to many illnesses and conditions. Thank you for the explanation...So, everyone who folds is somehow connected to a super computer somewhere that does stuff with the tertiary structures or what? Not exactly. Our computers do the folding and then just sends the results after each Work Unit is done. So that's the only time it communicates with the Folding@home server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emsley Posted June 9, 2004 Share Posted June 9, 2004 Mathmaticly it's a little un-efficiant...Better results are from leaving a couple of kick ass PCs on and lettign them scream there hard drives off in the process...If something seems to good to be true it normaly is. Sorry just a little skepticle on this. [plus my spelling is way of] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted June 10, 2004 Author Share Posted June 10, 2004 (edited) Mathmaticly it's a little un-efficiant...Better results are from leaving a couple of kick ass PCs on and lettign them scream there hard drives off in the process...If something seems to good to be true it normaly is. Sorry just a little skepticle on this. [plus my spelling is way of]Uh...you're wrong. How will they get better results from leaving a couple of kick ass PCs on vs. over a million folding@home users? The amount of computers needed to do what this distributed project does is beyond their budget. It's a private university project running on goverment grants and that does not allow massive spending. The only groups that can afford doing that are the government run labs (NIH and its branches) and private corporations (Celera, Genentech, etc.) which was done for the Human Genome Project. And how is this too good to be true? It's not. Edited June 10, 2004 by GryphonKlaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted July 21, 2004 Author Share Posted July 21, 2004 (edited) I haven't updated this in a while so I am now. Latest Stats:Active CPUs within 50 days - 3Team Id - 36271Grand Score - 5638.5 Work Unit Count - 79 Team Ranking - 3528 of 32041 Thanks to K'dash for folding. The rest of you should try it out too. Edited July 21, 2004 by GryphonKlaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 I've completely forgotten about it. But it's always folding. Look at that bugger fold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverlordMondo Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 What exactly does it fold? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 It helps by coding various formulas to find cures for illnessess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverlordMondo Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 But why is it called folding? O_o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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