Folding@Home - Help Find A Cure For Cancer
02-20-2007, 08:48 PM
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Folding@Home - Help Find A Cure For Cancer
Top of the morning to everyone!
There is this program by Stanford University that you can run on your computer which can aid in finding cures for cancer, alzheimers, parkinsons, huntingtons, and a number of others as well.
It's really simple to get started.
Download the correct client from here.
The Windows 5.03 version if you're running Windows (shortcut here).
The MacOSX SMP one if you have a Intel Mac (shortcut here).
Once you install it, enter in whatever username you want (I use vraa) and the team number (45431 for mbworld.org)
It literally takes about 2 minutes from the start of this thread to the end of install and you're already contributing to the effort.
The way it works in a nutshell is every few days it downloads a "workunit" from Stanford, processes it and then uploads the results. It's really compact and it runs in the background, I run it on all my computers and all the computers at the office I work at.
Go ahead and ask questions if you have them, I've been contributing to this project for more than five years. It has the support of many big name companies such as Intel and Microsoft as well as support from other well-known universities such as Oxford and Berkeley.
Tell your friends and family too, it's for a great cause.
If you want to see how much you've contributed to the effort, you can check here
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...php?s=&t=45431
As you can see, team mbworld.org is doing relatively well, but we could always use more help.
There is this program by Stanford University that you can run on your computer which can aid in finding cures for cancer, alzheimers, parkinsons, huntingtons, and a number of others as well.
It's really simple to get started.
Download the correct client from here.
The Windows 5.03 version if you're running Windows (shortcut here).
The MacOSX SMP one if you have a Intel Mac (shortcut here).
Once you install it, enter in whatever username you want (I use vraa) and the team number (45431 for mbworld.org)
It literally takes about 2 minutes from the start of this thread to the end of install and you're already contributing to the effort.
The way it works in a nutshell is every few days it downloads a "workunit" from Stanford, processes it and then uploads the results. It's really compact and it runs in the background, I run it on all my computers and all the computers at the office I work at.
Go ahead and ask questions if you have them, I've been contributing to this project for more than five years. It has the support of many big name companies such as Intel and Microsoft as well as support from other well-known universities such as Oxford and Berkeley.
Tell your friends and family too, it's for a great cause.
If you want to see how much you've contributed to the effort, you can check here
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...php?s=&t=45431
As you can see, team mbworld.org is doing relatively well, but we could always use more help.
04-12-2007, 03:51 AM
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Well just a small status update with what is going on.
Clublexus, another car enthusiast forum is fully on-board and competing with us. Although we outrank them by a fair margin, they are catching up quite quickly
We just recently broke into the 400 ranks. As of now we're ranked 491 and expected to be 415 in 30 days. That is out of 27633 teams!
In the last month, the Stanford folks have released a client for Windows computers with multiple processors and also a client for computers with multiple GPUs.
An even bigger announcement is that Sony has come on board with the project by allowing users to run Folding@Home on their PS3's with the latest firmware update!
Thanks to a few members and their PS3's on our team, we've really skyrocketed on the team ranks and the entire project continues to grow. There are now a little less than 250,000 computers that are actively engaged in the project (meaning in the last week they've delivered results).
So if you haven't started it yet, go on and download the client here.
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
Come on board and show your Mercedes enthusiasm pride and help make a difference at the same time!
Clublexus, another car enthusiast forum is fully on-board and competing with us. Although we outrank them by a fair margin, they are catching up quite quickly
We just recently broke into the 400 ranks. As of now we're ranked 491 and expected to be 415 in 30 days. That is out of 27633 teams!
In the last month, the Stanford folks have released a client for Windows computers with multiple processors and also a client for computers with multiple GPUs.
An even bigger announcement is that Sony has come on board with the project by allowing users to run Folding@Home on their PS3's with the latest firmware update!
Thanks to a few members and their PS3's on our team, we've really skyrocketed on the team ranks and the entire project continues to grow. There are now a little less than 250,000 computers that are actively engaged in the project (meaning in the last week they've delivered results).
So if you haven't started it yet, go on and download the client here.
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
Come on board and show your Mercedes enthusiasm pride and help make a difference at the same time!
04-12-2007, 08:07 AM
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I have this running on my PS3 but I have to admit , I dont see how the hell having a client running on my PC or PS3 is helping finding a cure for teh list of ailments - can u enlighten please cause all I see it doing is running down a timer like thing and showing me a map of the world! hows it help find cures?!?!?
04-12-2007, 08:10 AM
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Sure, the PS3 client is a little different though compared to the PC one, however both do the same thing in the end.
What the clients do is download a piece of data (a workunit) from Stanford University, process the workunit (essentially simulate how the protein would act out in real life) and then submit back the results to Stanford so they can run statistical analysis on the results.
Once they have enough samples, they can start to run tests on the proteins to find out which specific protein causes what specific problems. Once those are recognized then anything can happen. They can develop (for example) something to stop the immortality part of cancer cells, or they can create a drug to try to fix the folding of specific proteins or serve as a catalyst -- honestly the methods are over my head but I do understand enough to know that it's for a good cause
What the clients do is download a piece of data (a workunit) from Stanford University, process the workunit (essentially simulate how the protein would act out in real life) and then submit back the results to Stanford so they can run statistical analysis on the results.
Once they have enough samples, they can start to run tests on the proteins to find out which specific protein causes what specific problems. Once those are recognized then anything can happen. They can develop (for example) something to stop the immortality part of cancer cells, or they can create a drug to try to fix the folding of specific proteins or serve as a catalyst -- honestly the methods are over my head but I do understand enough to know that it's for a good cause
04-12-2007, 08:16 AM
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ok but how does putting a client on my PC\PS3 simulate a protein - I mean its using a CPU not a REAL human cell so surely teh results its get back will be rather unrealistic because human cells can act in a way that may not be 'programmed' by the client simulator using the PC's CPU. Do I make sense here?!?!?
I guess I just dont see how a PC CPU can be manipulated to act like a human (or biological) cell.
I guess I just dont see how a PC CPU can be manipulated to act like a human (or biological) cell.
04-12-2007, 08:21 AM
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From what I understand (hey, i'm no biologist ) the idea here is to simulate every possibility of a specific protein folding -- that's where computers can help.
A computer can process so many calculations in such a short amount of time. So when you have a quarter of a million computers working away at the project, you can get some serious results back.
For example my computers at home are working on a specific protein called p2125.
But it's only working on one instance of that protein, there are probably hundreds if not thousands of other computers working on that specific protein but just a slight variation of it. Perhaps a molecule is in a different position or in a different angle or something where it could cause a difference in the end result (when the protein folds to get -- I don't know how to put this in more elegant terms -- but the building blocks of life!).
) the idea here is to simulate every possibility of a specific protein folding -- that's where computers can help.A computer can process so many calculations in such a short amount of time. So when you have a quarter of a million computers working away at the project, you can get some serious results back.
For example my computers at home are working on a specific protein called p2125.
But it's only working on one instance of that protein, there are probably hundreds if not thousands of other computers working on that specific protein but just a slight variation of it. Perhaps a molecule is in a different position or in a different angle or something where it could cause a difference in the end result (when the protein folds to get -- I don't know how to put this in more elegant terms -- but the building blocks of life!).
04-12-2007, 08:27 AM
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oh right cool I get it now - so rather than uni's having to purchase - well it would be millions of PC's etc to get lab results to work on they can ship out a client to anyone willing to help and get results using our CPU's - thats a well good idea - who teh hell thought of doing that? Its a real good idea.
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04-12-2007, 01:08 PM
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oh right cool I get it now - so rather than uni's having to purchase - well it would be millions of PC's etc to get lab results to work on they can ship out a client to anyone willing to help and get results using our CPU's - thats a well good idea - who teh hell thought of doing that? Its a real good idea.
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I heard that the capacity of the Folding network almost tripled after the PS3 was introduced. Amazing what those cell processors can do!
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i just thought i'd share some interesting info i read about.. apparently someone had the foldign software installed on their laptop and after it got stolen, he was able to locate the laptop by getting the IP because his laptop connected to the folding servers..
so, Folding @ Home can act as a security system too!
so, Folding @ Home can act as a security system too!
