MMO-C folding team

[Cyanotical]

Okay, i went an made a folding team for the computer forums:

the team number is: 209552
the team name is: MMO-Champion.com

team statistics can be found here: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...teamnum=209552
more detailed statistics from extremeoverclocking.com: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...hp?s=&t=209552

to contribute, put the team number in the team field in the client configuration

you can download it here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download


V7 and beta clients:
https://fah-web.stanford.edu/project...ki/BetaRelease


(note, if one of the mods would like to take ownership just let me know)

You can help scientists studying these diseases 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.

Protein folding is linked to disease, such as Alzheimer's, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers.

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.

What is protein folding?

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.

FAQ: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ

[matherl]

what is this ever so elusive "folding" and why would we need it?

[Fuzzykins]

what is this ever so elusive "folding" and why would we need it?

Please use Google before asking questions.

[giowatcher]

Google had like 300 different results...

[Cyanotical]

what is this ever so elusive "folding" and why would we need it?

basically its a way to use your spare computer power to help cure diseases

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Main



you are awarded points based on work done, the more powerful your machine, the more points you get, because of this people and groups compete against eachother for points, and it goes to a good cause

[matherl]

Please use Google before asking questions.

google took me to folding laundry...

[ispano]

I googled just now, "folding team" without the quotes. And got Folding@Home on the first several links.

[Baelic]

Dude, I'd love to use my spare CPU cycles to help a cause! Let's get er done!

[Cyanotical]

okay, went and made a team

[Arisfarreach]

I'm in.

Let's do it.

[Marest]

Joined (I think?)! Name doesn't seem to pop up under "Members"?

[Cyanotical]

Joined (I think?)! Name doesn't seem to pop up under "Members"?

afaik, it will take up to 6 hours to update

[Saithes]

v7 is a lot better than v6.

https://fah-web.stanford.edu/project...ki/BetaRelease

[Skelly]

Folding isn't a summer hobby for me, but remind me in the fall and I'll join up.

[Cyanotical]

v7 is a lot better than v6.https://fah-web.stanford.edu/project...ki/BetaRelease

V7 seems to have a bug the locks in SMP mode (multi core) this is about like running prime95, although you can lower the CPU usage down from 100%Also, names won't appear on the team roster until you finish a complete work load, ie finish folding the molecule you have, this is also how points are generated, it may take up to a day or so for this depending on your CPU

[Djinni]

Defiantly going to be joining this :-) Although running it on my laptop could be an issue.... might have to wait till I actually have a decent PC.

[shoebox]

hahaha, just as i am in the process of building a folding machine, i will be joining this team for sure. build should be done in 2 weeks .

[sabe]

I joined.Good find.Makes my 560 ti scream.

[Scryus]

I googled "folding" and got it on the first result, just sayin'.

I would join, but I fear my laptop would rise against the human race and enslave it. Good use of time and power though! Support this fully.

[Fuzzykins]

My client doesn't seem to want to work. ~.o