MrDad Posted April 3, 2005 Share Posted April 3, 2005 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. How can you help? You can help our project by downloading and running our client software. Our algorithms are designed such that for every computer that joins the project, we get a commensurate increase in simulation speed. http://folding.stanford.edu/ Instead of your CPU idling between tasks, it runs the protein simulation. It then uploads the finished product to Stanford, and downloads a new package to work on. It's similiar to SETI@Home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weyoun Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 Sounded interesting, so I downloaded it. I am running an oc'd AMD 64bit 3200+, so that should help a bit. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finner Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 Theirs a bunch of those online the "shared computing." All sorts of research if your into using your computers resources when your not there to help out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vystral Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 I like the one for SETI@home ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtremeskiing Posted April 4, 2005 Share Posted April 4, 2005 SETI at home is great, i was one of the very first people with it, i think one of the first 250 or less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendo001 Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 why cant all computers in the world be used to work on things like that? imagine the power of all the computers in the world......... thats a lot of computing power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer101 Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 but it uses up lots of CPU. so i uninstall it cause my computer went restart lol. just a warning. it uses alot of CPU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektram Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 My parents made me uninstall SETI, they were afraid that the Aliens might get thier banking details :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
czernyman Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 I use the World Community Grid Project for my protein folding needs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weyoun Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 but it uses up lots of CPU. so i uninstall it cause my computer went restart lol. just a warning. it uses alot of CPU The seti @home does use your cpu 100% with the option of only being on while at screen saver. It does, however, set itself as a low priority process, so if anything else needs your processor, this will give way. The main thing that probably made your computer restart, is that it can heat up a cpu, so you might want to monitor that. The @home project listed here has an option so that you can set what percent of your cpu to use for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer101 Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 meh. i run 5-6 Instant messengers, Stealthbot Messenger (Starcraft , D2 and Warcraft Chat Client), Steam, Winamp, Ad-Watch and azureus. Firefox when i load uses alot of cpu lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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