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What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

You can help by simply running a piece of software.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

[B737]

Update of Systems

Server 1
Opteron 170
2GB

Server2
E6750
2GB

PC1
Q6600
4GB

PC2
PentD
2GB

PC3
Q6600
4gb

GPU 1
8800GT OC
512MB

Soon to be added.
Pent 4 2.8
2GB

Pent3 1.0
1GB

TurionX2 2.0
2gb

E6750
2GB

Edited by B737, 19 October 2008 - 06:39 PM.

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Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicccccceeeeeee lol, that's a nice set of systems, !  My PS3 F@H has taken a dump, it won't let me connect to the stupid server...it's been trying to for the past 2 days.

[B737]

Toby Werner, on Oct 19 2008, 06:33 PM, said:

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicccccceeeeeee lol, that's a nice set of systems, !  My PS3 F@H has taken a dump, it won't let me connect to the stupid server...it's been trying to for the past 2 days.

Yea there has been a issue with the ps3 server. Many people can not connect, or stay connected. They believe its a network issue, and are in the process of switching to a fully dedicated internet connections away from the school's.

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Nice, any idea when it's supposed to happen?  It sucks that it can't even connect to download a work unit.

[B737]

Toby Werner, on Oct 19 2008, 07:29 PM, said:

Nice, any idea when it's supposed to happen?  It sucks that it can't even connect to download a work unit.

Not really sure but I assume asap.

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Toby Werner, on Oct 16 2008, 10:52 PM, said:

pwn - Nice man looks good.  Which client are you using?

Just plain ol' Folding@Home v6.20 for OS X.

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B737 is crunching away like mad!!  Give him a month or two and he'll be at the top lol!  Fantastic stuff B737, keep it up!

[learjet45dream]

i will never let that happen. time to start folding for the FSW team again.

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Finally got learjet's attention...mission accomplished!

[B737]

Toby Werner, on Oct 20 2008, 08:59 PM, said:

B737 is crunching away like mad!!  Give him a month or two and he'll be at the top lol!  Fantastic stuff B737, keep it up!

Thanks trying my best. Gonna try and get another 5 pc's up by the end of the week.

[learjet45dream]

Darn, I was hoping that wouldnt happen.

I'm folding for the FSW team. I forgot I had switched back. My last 5 WUs or so were for the FSW team I believe.

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How fast can you crunch through a WU with that 8800GT?

[learjet45dream]

My 8800GTS ( ) takes about 2 hours at stock speeds to complete a WU. About another half an hour until I finish my next WU.


Oh, and I should have mentioned, I plan on trying my GPU OCing again soon so that might help out with WU times, and possibly setting up my dad's old server that we have with XP and running F@H on it. Its only a P4 2.4 GHz ~1.5GB RAM setup, but it all helps. don't forget to add the extra 29 WUs from my family's other old computer we don't use anymore (something fried on the mobo I think, no keyboard or mouse and possibly other equipment would work with it, and the stuff that was hooked up worked on my computer.)

Edited by learjet45dream, 20 October 2008 - 11:56 PM.

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Nice, and sorry for mixing up the graphic cards!   Like I said before, get a program that will allow you to adjust shader speeds because the shader speed is what will really improve performance on WU's.  To get the highest shader clock speed possible you have to keep your Core and Memory at around stock settings.  You'll notice a nice improvement if you kick the shaders up a couple hundred Mhz.

I can't wait to start folding on my new system...just at a point where I can't spend anymore money on the parts that I still need because I've got my car and bike to pay first.  Frustrating!

[B737]

Update of Systems

Server 1
Opteron 170
2GB

Server2
E6750
2GB

PC1
Q6600
4GB

PC2
PentD
2GB

PC3
Q6600
4gb

PC4
TurionX2 2.0
2gb

PC5
PentD
2GB

PC6
Pent 4 2.8
512MB

PC7
Pent 4 2.8
2GB

GPU 1
8800GT OC
512MB

Soon to be added.

T7500 2.2
2GB

Pent3 1.0
1GB

E6750
2GB

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Ok, where the heck did you get all those systems my man????

[B737]

Toby Werner, on Oct 21 2008, 01:59 AM, said:

Ok, where the heck did you get all those systems my man????

Some are mine, others are family or friends.

Gonna look into a deployment for the entire domain I maintain at a company. 32 PCs & 3 Servers.

That should bump the WU.  


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Edited by B737, 21 October 2008 - 02:05 AM.

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Wow lol your nuts, in a good way of course!  I should be up and running soon as well with a E8400 and a 9600GSO.  Should average around 7,500 PPD so watch out!!

[learjet45dream]

Nice man!
yeah, I've used RivaTuner to OC. Folding right now.