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| For those of you who don't know, folding@home is a program which you can download to help with medical research. It will use your computer's extra processing cycles to calculate the folding of proteins then send the results to the main server. In this way it uses millions of computers to calculate much faster than a supercomputer could. Because it only uses the free processing cycles there should be no noticeable slow down with your computer, it simply won't calculate anything if your using 100% of your cpu.
QUOTE: What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.
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.
To help out you can just download folding@home from their official download page and run it on your computer. All the work units your computer finishes will be attributed to the username of your choice, so people can see how much you have helped. You can even join a team and work to beat the other teams, if anybody here wants to join a team; I have one. You can see my current team rating at: this page. And join by entering my team number (125561) in your f@h settings. Joining a team doesn't hurt your user-score, it just also applies your points to that team.
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| Sounds cool. So it is just a program that does a bunch of math and sends it back to a server?
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| Yep, and you get the satisfaction of helping scientists out. |
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| I'll think about this.
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| If you guys use your pyco account names (the names on this forum) then I can possibly give out awards for people who help. If your names taken you could always do something like Pyco-KaBob799 for your name.
If anybody does decide to help, don't be discouraged by how long it takes to do a work unit. Just let it run and you'll start earning points, every little bit helps. |
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Clark 707 | |
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| o sweet ill help out =]
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| If anyone has problems figuring out the settings to use on f@h I can help  |
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Bouncy Ball | |
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| I doubt I'll be allowed to download it... |
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KaBob799 | |
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| I just hit the 100 work unit milestone =D
Though I see nobody else is helping =p |
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Bouncy Ball | |
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| like I said, this isn't my own comp and only my own..... I doubt I will be allowed too.... |
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| I think this is a great idea... I downloaded it and joined your team...
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| I guess that explains what folding@home was. I saw it on my task manager.
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My signature.. It's like, a bulletin board.. only with no tacks, isn't hanging on a wall, and has stuff typed on it. And advertises stuff.
oh but its empty now kthx |
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Bouncy Ball | |
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| Then u dwnld it b4? |
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Kamira | |
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| No, but KaBob might've. |
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KaBob799 | |
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I has no idea what you are talking about *hides*
QUOTE: I think this is a great idea... I downloaded it and joined your team...
You get a cheese award for being the first to help out
I guess I will also have to go design f@h specific awards =p |
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Bouncy Ball | |
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| QUOTE: Kamira No, but KaBob might've.
wait.... so you share a comp???? |
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Kamira | |
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| For about 20 minutes. |
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Bouncy Ball | |
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| What do you mean??? |
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Kamira | |
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| He just used it for a tiny bit. |
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Bouncy Ball | |
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| I see...... mostly cause I now know hes your brother.... |
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folding@home
I has no idea what you are talking about *hides*
