TBG Folding Team?

RainMotorsports

RainMotorsports

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I don't know if any of you do anything with the folding@home project? But I am getting back into it.

I didn't see a team for TBG so I made one, hope no one minds. I will share the login with the founders later I am running to sleep now. Figure we can have something else to show for how awesome TBG is.

Team is 21041 - Team 210410's contributions to Folding@home

I am actually running both the GPU3 client and CPU client at the same time trying to "double up" on work even though the cpu client doesnt actually get much done.
 
wtf is that? i thought you were talking about folding laundry i was like WTF IS HE ON.
 
I folded with my ps3 for a while, I dont think it does anything really important.
 
Supra said:
I folded with my ps3 for a while, I dont think it does anything really important.
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I first folded on a Cyrix 6x86 133mhz on windows 98 lol.

Its exactly the work that would be taking place on university computers for cancer research if it wasn't a distributed effort now. Basically the university would have spent more money on computers and still got nothing done.

Its no more important than any other research paper written on cancer prior to the project.... you can decide on that lol. Mind you they seem to be researching alot more than just cancer caused by protein folding at this time.
 
Dirty-Lex said:
What exactly is Folding Rain? I have never heard of it before
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University of Stanford is researching protein folding and how it relates/causes cancer, Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, and Parkinson's disease. The immense amount of computing power/time it would take for the university to do it themselves makes it almost useless to try.

In 2000 they released a screen saver app, it did the simulation while your computer was idle and showed the structure your computer was simulating for a screen saver. Its been developed and ported over the years. Can still run it on CPU, but graphics card clients are popular now and the PS3 had a client for its vector processors.

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They publish research based on it at this point. Theyre goal is to actually have very realistic and medically usable models/simulations. Not quite there yet. But if you dont mind the power bill, its something to participate in i guess.
 
It's the original usage of cloud-computing. Remember SETI@home? They use the whole network of computers from whoever is part of the cloud, to do massive calculations. Each computer has a small packet, sort of like a torrent piece, that it works on then uploads.
 
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