Help Us with Medical Research!!!
Taco Bell
07 Oct 2007
Since Grid.org and its cancer-fighting project has been retired along with our old team there, I've found a new venue for my distributed computing ventures through Folding@Home and its medical research projects and, with that, I've created a new ieXbeta team (#89179) for you to join and combine our forces.
Note, it seems that the web site will NOT list you as a team member until after you've joined our team and completed a work unit (WU).
If you have any questions, feel free to post them or just send me a PM.
Note, it seems that the web site will NOT list you as a team member until after you've joined our team and completed a work unit (WU).
QUOTE (Folding@Home)
Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
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.
You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.
Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
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.
You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.
Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
If you have any questions, feel free to post them or just send me a PM.
Chugworth
24 Oct 2007
Heh, I didn't even notice this post. Taco sent me a PM about it a couple of days ago, and today I just remembered that.
I went ahead and added the team number to my home server (an Athlon 64 3500). I guess my name will be added the next time I complete a work unit.
I went ahead and added the team number to my home server (an Athlon 64 3500). I guess my name will be added the next time I complete a work unit.
Taco Bell
24 Oct 2007
No problem Chug and that's correct about the adding of your name which I also tried to note in the original post.
Xenokira
24 Dec 2007
Just setup my desktop system and PS3 for Folding@Home and will be putting on it my laptop shortly 
Xenokira
22 Feb 2008
man, I might have to get my old computer going on this too if I ever want to catch up to Chugworth (leading with 108 work units completed!) I gotta say though, folding on my PS3 this week has definately helped keep my room warm! ...stupid Minnesota winter...
Chugworth
22 Feb 2008
QUOTE (Xenokira @ Feb 21 2008, 23:08) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
man, I might have to get my old computer going on this too if I ever want to catch up to Chugworth (leading with 108 work units completed!) I gotta say though, folding on my PS3 this week has definately helped keep my room warm! ...stupid Minnesota winter...
Damn! You're going to go around me with that PS3!
That's all right though. If Folding@Home ever gets off their asses and releases the GPU client that's compatible with the 2900XT, then I'll be churning in the work units so fast it will make your head spin!
Xenokira
22 Feb 2008
QUOTE (Chugworth @ Feb 21 2008, 22:18) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (Xenokira @ Feb 21 2008, 23:08) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
man, I might have to get my old computer going on this too if I ever want to catch up to Chugworth (leading with 108 work units completed!) I gotta say though, folding on my PS3 this week has definately helped keep my room warm! ...stupid Minnesota winter...
Damn! You're going to go around me with that PS3!
That's all right though. If Folding@Home ever gets off their asses and releases the GPU client that's compatible with the 2900XT, then I'll be churning in the work units so fast it will make your head spin!
Chugworth
10 Apr 2008
All right! They finally released the new GPU client. It's an open beta right now:
http://folding.typepad.com/news/2008/04/gpu2-open-beta.html
This new client supports Radeon HD 2xxx and 3xxx cards. The reason that it took them so long to release it is because they pretty much rewrote the whole thing.
http://folding.typepad.com/news/2008/04/gpu2-open-beta.html
This new client supports Radeon HD 2xxx and 3xxx cards. The reason that it took them so long to release it is because they pretty much rewrote the whole thing.
Chugworth
11 Apr 2008
Whoa, this thing is pretty fast. I completed a whole work unit in about two hours and twenty minutes. Not bad at all.
Taco Bell
11 Apr 2008
Damn, now I'm falling even further behind you Chug! Especially with my home computer having been offline for the past three weeks!
Hopefully I'll have the painting of the office finished by this weekend though and I can finally set things back up again. Red is by far the hardest color to paint and it's gonna take a fifth coat before its done. Beware the red paint!
Hopefully I'll have the painting of the office finished by this weekend though and I can finally set things back up again. Red is by far the hardest color to paint and it's gonna take a fifth coat before its done. Beware the red paint!
