[soccer_maniac]

Folding@Home FAQ for new users:

What is Folding@Home? A Stanford University project to find out how proteins fold.

Why it's important: Proteins folding wrong causes all kinds of diseases, like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and forms of cancer. Folding@Home uses novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. Through Folding@home, scientists now have the horsepower to study the mechanics of protein folding. With its ability to share the workload among hundred of thousands of computers economically, Folding@home can help scientists understand how proteins snap, or don’t, into their predestined shapes — and may help to explain the origins of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and apparently unrelated diseases. We're fueling research that could end all that.

How does it work?: You download a safe, tested program (see link below) that is certified by Stanford University. It gets work from Stanford, runs calculations using your spare computer power, and sends the results back to the University.

Is it safe? Yes! Folding@Home rarely effects computer performance in any way and won't compromise your privacy in any way. It only uses the computing power you aren't using so it doesn't slow down other programs.

How do I get started folding for Team FreeRepublic?: 1.)Download the folding program from Stanford University's folding download page (see link below). Type in your desired username. 2) Type in 36120 for the team number. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - if you get the number wrong, you won't be folding for team FreeRepublic! 3) The third question asks, "Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service?" - We recommend you answer YES. Otherwise you will have to manually start the program after every reboot.

How can my computer help? Even if he were given exclusive access to all of the world’s supercomputers, Standford still wouldn’t have as much processing power as they get from the supercluster of people’s desktop systems Folding@home relies on. Modern supercomputers are essentially a cluster of hundreds of processors linked by fast networking. But Stanford needed the power of hundreds of thousands of processors, not just hundreds.

There's no reason to not get involved! It's free, easy, and you can know you're helping every minute without lifting a finger.

List of Updated Links
Why Fold - Watch This !!

Another Folding Clip

Folding@home Client Download

FreeRepublic.com Folder Stats

Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic

Another Stats Page

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Competition (Not!!) Dummies ..Daily Kos

Dummie Folding Threads #7 #8 #9

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Other Useful Stuff - Links

How much are those work units worth? And what are they?
All Projects Listed
Point Summary for Workunits

Stat Image Generator

Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software

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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads

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[soccer_maniac]

Folding@Home ping

[gondramB]

Question: I read that the Enigma distributed computing project created a security problem by making a windows account with a known password. Are there any similar concerns with the folding project?

[knews_hound]

Just added a second machine BTTT.

CHeers,

knewshound

http://knewshound.blogspot.com/

[SerpentDove]

What a great idea! Kudos.

P.S. None to donate at present.

[Route66]

[Please join the team bump.]

It's easy. It's safe. It's very worthwhile.

In addition to that, we are seriously annoying a lot of liberals as we work our way up the list. :-)

[Incorrigible]

I'm falling behind!!!

I got assigned a 10,000 step WU and still only 3/4 of the way through after days of processing!

[Desron13]

Bookmark

[uglybiker]

Aw crud. I just got a work unit with 10,000 frames. YIKES!

Looks like you won't be seeing any credits from me for a few days.

[Termite_Commander]

I just downloaded Folding@Home and added myself and my processing power (unimpressive as it may be) to the team.

I'll have contributed my first WU in just under two days.

[dfwddr]

Everyone say goodbye to SISD !!!!!!! That should be the last we see of them !

[processing please hold]

This is an old thread but, it was all I could find. Could you please ping me to the new one.

My computer went out and I had to get another one, this one has a dual core processor. I saved all my info on a thumb drive, I think it's called, but I can't retrieve my saved stuff. If you'll notice, I haven't completed a WU for quiet sometime. My old computer kept shutting down and it would keep sending me the same WU packet, but, it never completed one.

With a dual core procerror, will I be able to fold an extra wu?

My internet connection phone line has been out and they're still working on my line. I have been without internet for nearly a week. I would like to start back up on my folding.