hey, who's still folding?

[mopinko]

DH builds computers as a hobby, and is a systems architect irl. he was working on a linux server, and needed something to test it with, so he started it folding.
at one time we had 4 computers folding. right now it is only one, but it has 8 clients, one of which is using the video card. should have a couple more after a shake-up that is coming soon- new computers swapped in, old ones swapped out.
i tried to put it on my little macbook here, but it didn't work. will monkey with that soon.

so, look for team mo to start climbing the charts.

so, who else is folding? looked at the stats and didn't recognize the names of the leaders. must be folks that keep their noses clean. ;-P

[Sal Minella]

1. Can somebody tell me what this post is about??? n/t

[Ptah]

2. Here's some info from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home


Folding@home (sometimes abbreviated as FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing (DC)
project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding
and other molecular dynamics (MD), and to improve on the methods available to do so.
It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within
Stanford University's chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay Pande.

Folding@home is the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world,
according to Guinness,<2> and one of the world's largest distributed computing projects.<3>
The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases."<4>

[Sal Minella]

7. Ah, thank you.

Since my computer won't even download a PDF file without crashing, this is in the vast area outside the Field Of Things I Need To Know About.

tnx.

[rurallib]

3. May I compliment you on your 'pull the plug on Grassley' sig

It will be party time when that SOB is defeated next November.

[mopinko]

4. du folding team- 48157

[Warpy]

5. I found I could run it only so long

and then it would start to affect the performance severely. That's why I finally dropped it.

Were I able to afford gamer boxes with all the bells and whistles, as well as terabytes of RAM, I'd probably still be folding.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

6. I'm processing SETI data

via the BOINC manager.

[mopinko]

8. wow, that's it??

what the hey?