Fold for MAX-OC..Cure cancer on your computer!

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February 1, 2004 at 2:34 am #11202
darkc0ne
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Im trying to get people to start folding for max-oc.. Its the hardware and overclocking forum I go to…

Folding is realy a noble cause but most people do it for the compition!!Heres a little bit about what is folding and how it works,taken from the site.

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quote:What are proteins and why do they “fold”? Proteins are biology’s workhorses — its “nanomachines.” Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or “fold.” The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. “misfold”), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson’s disease.

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

Sound like interesting?If so click On the link at the bottom of this page and download the client that is made for your OS and install it.[Get the graphical client,NOT THE SCREEN SAVER]
When it asks for a username and a team you put

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quote:Conscript

for the user name and

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quote:34133

for the team #.

Here are some tips so you can leave F@H on 24/7 without noticing it!
- If you are doing any CPU intensive tasks like playing games or encoding a movie or the like right click the icon in your taskbar and select “Pause work”.After you are done with the task that needed your CPU right click again and click “Resume work”
- If you need more CPU for most of your work rightclick on the icon and click “Configure” and then go to the tab all the way on the right and move the slider that says CPU useage percent to 80% or 90%.
- So you dont lose your work when you turn of your computer,right click the icon in the taskbar again and go to the same far righthand slider and move the second slider thats labled “Checkpoint frequency” and slide it all the way to the left so its at 3 minutes.
Any computer you have this running on will be working hard to help save lives,so fold yourheads off people!!!

The link:http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/download.html

Edit-Added note about getting the graphical client.
Second Edit- Added the link… To much writing makes my head hurt.
February 1, 2004 at 2:39 am #85193

Dr Kimble
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Where is the link?

February 1, 2004 at 2:42 am #85190

darkc0ne
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Sorry about that one Doc. I wrote that all myself [exept for the bit i nicked from the website..] and i forgot… But thanks for folding!

Also.. Let us know if you’re folding!I want to see how many people got involved and weither or not i typed all that for nothing..

February 1, 2004 at 4:32 am #85192

Dr Kimble
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I am folding 🙂
That is a cool screen saver, I will help the world of science in any way possible!!

February 2, 2004 at 2:40 am #85189

darkc0ne
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Thanks for helping!! Anyone else want to give it a go?

February 14, 2004 at 2:55 am #85185

ShadowSlayer469
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Sounds fun, I think I’ll try it.

February 17, 2004 at 4:30 am #85191

darkc0ne
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Wooo, thanks a load shadow!

February 19, 2004 at 9:53 pm #85188

darkc0ne
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Anyone else want to give it a go? Come on, use those Idle CPU cycles.. I bet half you people here have 3 Ghz p4s and your just being lazy..

February 26, 2004 at 4:51 am #85186

bjigga
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Ok, maybe I’m just slow, but I am sooooo lost. What exactly does this thing do? How does a screen saver help with protein research? I’m mean I’m all for helping, but I am just really confused, and their website didn’t me either. Let me know how this thing works and what it does and I’ll be more than glad to help out. Thanks

February 26, 2004 at 11:49 pm #85184

Fimus
Member

From what I understand, it uses your processor to do calculations for them… But what’s the point if it still has to go through the net to get to its master?

February 28, 2004 at 4:45 am #85187

darkc0ne
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quote:Ok, maybe I’m just slow, but I am sooooo lost. What exactly does this thing do? How does a screen saver help with protein research? I’m mean I’m all for helping, but I am just really confused, and their website didn’t me either. Let me know how this thing works and what it does and I’ll be more than glad to help out. Thanks

It isnt the screen save that does it… the screen saver at attached to a program that does it while the screen saver is on.What happens is the prog downloads a protein and folds it like the protien would fold if it was in a human body.After it is done folding it goes back to the master so it can show it the data it has collected, the master compares the folding from the client[you] to other previous folds and if your fold is messed up it can figure out that the protien that was mis-folded COULD be one of the ones that causes mad cow/cancer when it miss folds.

and fimus.. i think i explaned you question somewhere in that lol.. Just look through it and if you still dont understand hit me up on AIM… SN: aA Conscript .

Any other questions? I would realy be thankfull if either of you started folding for me ^_^
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