Anyone out there Folding@Home?

[ranchogirl]

Originally Posted by Jeannie

Hi, there, Ranchogirl! Come join our club, folding proteins at home for science - basic science intended to further cures and treatments for diseases! It's really very easy, we're a good group of people (all probably Prius owners on our Priuschat team), and we're working hard to break into the top 200 teams among the tens of thousands of teams participating in this project. Your contribution would be very welcome!

Except I still don't have a clue what it is about. Folding proteins? Huh? The posts sound like computer jargon. Waaaay over my head.

Sorry...

[Wildkow]

Originally Posted by ranchogirl

Except I still don't have a clue what it is about. Folding proteins? Huh? The posts sound like computer jargon. Waaaay over my head.

Sorry...

Sorry this took so long to get back to you ranchogirl. Here is a video . . .

You Tube

here is the Folding@Home web page it has a good explaination of Folding Proteins.

Folding@home - Main

We'd love to answer any other questions you might have.

Wildkow

[Jeannie]

Originally Posted by ranchogirl

Except I still don't have a clue what it is about. Folding proteins? Huh? The posts sound like computer jargon. Waaaay over my head.

The science of it is way over my head, too - I'm not a molecular biologist. But Folding@Home is producing results in basic science, and those results are being used in other projects that are working directly on finding treatments and cures for diseases.

So, I contribute the time on my computer when the CPU wouldn't be doing anything - simple concept, and I'm hoping that my little bit helps in the overall goal of curing diseases.

[Wildkow]

Well it looks like we are solidly in the Top 200 Folding@Home teams. Molang/Chinalfr2 is just churning out an enormous amount of WU's and about 20,000 points each day . Thank you so much Chinalfr2! Followed by myself, when he convinced me to go to the "Dark Side" I purchased two MSI Geforce NX 8800 GT OC's for less than two hundred dollars. The OC is for Overclocked and just off those two video cards I'm getting somewhere in the neighborhood of 10K points per day. I have a big grin on my face when I say that! LOL!

We are followed by Jeannie at 4K-5K points per day, Trevor NYC, MODale, faith2walk and wcrasper each put out around 2K-4K points each day, kettledrum, AnOldHouse, Daveinolywa, prberg, robn, realale, abode, plug along giving us 100-1000 points each day. The rest of the team is in the trenches still punching out WU's and points to the tune of 100-5K per week.

I would like to thank you all for sticking to it week after week. It really is for a good scientific cause and that is to discover how proteins mis-fold so that some pretty horrible diseases can be cured. Like I said it is real science, that produces real results to help cure some really horrible diseases.

Wanna get in on it and get yer own “Warm and Fuzzy” feeling when you check in to see the WU’s and Point’s you posted each day? Not to mention the fun competition between each other and other teams like “Vampire Piggy Hunters” in 188th place. We defiantly don’t like them because . . . well because they hunt “Vampire Piggy’s: and. . . and we don’t like that kinda stuff around here! But they have a pretty good lead on us and it will take months to catch up unless we get some more help. SLAY the “Vampire Piggy Hunters” Join team Priuschat and help vanquish the Piggy hater slaying people . . . team?

With that being said I would also like to thank all the priuschatters for their contribution and although some of you may not be active anymore we are grateful for the effort you gave. Consider this an invite to come back to the fold and start contributing again.

To all you others that haven't the faintest idea what I'm talking about go to the first post read a few and then skip ahead to about the last 6-12 pages before you start reading again and you'll get a good idea as to what is going on.

Once again thanks, youse guys are the best!

Wildkow

[chinalfr2]

Team Priuschat on Facebook. If you are folding with Team Priuschat and active on facebook.com, please install "F@H Protein Researcher" application and update your info.

On facebook world, Team Priuschat rank No. 23. In the world, Team Priuschat rank No. 197 (and climbing).

[realale]

I plan to be contributing more soon. I'll be putting F@H on my boss' computer when she's next out of town (tomorrow). It gets very light usage because she's on the road so much, so it should be able to crank out some decent points.

[chinalfr2]

Originally Posted by realale

I plan to be contributing more soon. I'll be putting F@H on my boss' computer when she's next out of town (tomorrow). It gets very light usage because she's on the road so much, so it should be able to crank out some decent points.

Please ask for your boss permission first before you install the application. Don't get into trouble by installing the application without approval.

[realale]

Originally Posted by chinalfr2

Please ask for your boss permission first before you install the application. Don't get into trouble by installing the application without approval.

Thanks for kind thoughts. My post sounded "sneakier" than it was.

We're a small business that really functions like family. My boss is the mother of the guy who served as best man at my wedding. She just happened to be in her office yesterday, and her current opinion on computers is the less she knows/sees the better.

In addition to being one of the attorneys (and an employment attorney at that - so I concur heartily in your general advice) in our office, I also wear the Sys Admin hat to the extent anyone does, and have free reign over the computers. So, no worries.

Peace,

Dave

[markderail]

Check out my last few packets.
http://kakaostats.com/usum.php?u=1095859

The latest SMP, console, windows. Before I quit awhile back, smp & 24 hours of crunch would net a few thousand points. Now I got a 84 and a 119 points.
Sure hope it gets better.

[Jeannie]

it looks like you're getting single-core work units. Do you have -smp specified in the arguments for your console client, or did you include it in the 'advanced' options in your configuration?

My Windows Vista SMP console clients are getting project 2665 workunits worth 1920 points.

I'm running the console client with the DEINO option, since for me the MPICH option didn't give me 100% usage of the cores. Use the installation guide for instructions for the installation: Folding@home - WinSMPGuideDEINO


After you re-install the DEINO option, go to this site to update the latest .exe: Folding Forum • View topic - new 6.22beta2R3 public beta client (w/ ack fix) which is 6.22beta2R3. You'll pick up a version of the .exe with several fixes, including better handling of early end unit problems. Just replace the .exe you downloaded with the DEINO option.


Nice to see you folding again, Mark, and I look forward to your contributions!