Folding@Home - Help Find A Cure For Cancer
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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.
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We are really jumping on rank, I had seen this before but never really got onto the idea of it, however now I'm hooked. While the points are meaningless I love to see my rank increase and beat out other people. I also think its great that we have such a strong team, all mbworld does it go up in rank, and quickly. We should get more people to get our rank even higher, I feel we could break 500 within a month with a few more good folders...
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In a month we're projected to be in the 49x rank.
I just got my PS3 onto the team, it folds like MAD.
The total power of about 12,000 PS3's constitutes roughy 40% of the ENTIRE F@H POWER!
We're looking at some serious power here. I remember reading a quote from Vijay Pande (the lead guy from Stanford on the project) and he said they were limited by how much raw computational horsepower they had. I think the PS3's ability to participate in this project will really bring a lot of new things to the table. Only time will tell.
Also, I believe that a few new papers are under peer review right now so expect to see some new results soon!
I just got my PS3 onto the team, it folds like MAD.
The total power of about 12,000 PS3's constitutes roughy 40% of the ENTIRE F@H POWER!
We're looking at some serious power here. I remember reading a quote from Vijay Pande (the lead guy from Stanford on the project) and he said they were limited by how much raw computational horsepower they had. I think the PS3's ability to participate in this project will really bring a lot of new things to the table. Only time will tell.
Also, I believe that a few new papers are under peer review right now so expect to see some new results soon!
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25 thousand PS3's are contributing to the project now which create 612 teraflops of power.
The F@H has 865 total teraflops of power! That is incredibly.
I think that the entire project is going to be revolutionalized very soon. I remember a quote from Dr. Vijay Pande saying once they hit 1 petaflop (1000 teraflops) that they'd have to sit down and restrutcture the entire project to have it take advantage of the new found power.
I'm very excited!
The F@H has 865 total teraflops of power! That is incredibly.
I think that the entire project is going to be revolutionalized very soon. I remember a quote from Dr. Vijay Pande saying once they hit 1 petaflop (1000 teraflops) that they'd have to sit down and restrutcture the entire project to have it take advantage of the new found power.
I'm very excited!
