Posted on 12/18/2015 9:49:44 PM PST by JRoberts
Someone started early.
The “Folding@Home” Distributed Computing Medical Research Project:
http://folding.stanford.edu/home/
The FR Team:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120
Original FR thread on the topic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1608372/posts
I am on the “CureCoin” & “FoldingCoin” teams so I get some $$ back for my power bill:
https://www.curecoin.net
The most lucrative “Distributed Computing” coin is “GridCoin” that pays for “BOINC”(Berkeley, SETI@Home, etc.) work:
http://www.gridcoin.us
Lucky us.
:)
Wait, we have one of those ? When is it ? Don't want to miss it !
We started the FRee Republic Folding@Home team 36120 in summer 2004 - so it took us 11 years to donate 1 billion points.
We've stayed in the top 100 teams fairly consistently, while the DUmmie team is #391.
For those who don't know about the Stanford University Folding@Home project, stay tuned!
F@H is interested in modeling the folding progression on a millisecond+ scale, on the how of folding verses the the final structure.
Folding@Home is a project that replaced Genome@Home in the 90’s. I started the FReeper team in ~2004.
I'll follow on with a discussion of F@H for those that are interested.
If not interested in folding, then just be sure to donate to Free Republic when we start our next fundraiser in January.
We hit a Billion points!
So, elaborate and I may get involved...
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 (Folding@home Client Download). Type in your desired user-name.
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 latest F@H kernel works with most OS and recognizes GPUs for faster processing.
How can my computer help? Even if they were given exclusive access to all of the world's supercomputers, Stanford 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.
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List of Relevant Folding Links
The Inner Life of a Cell
Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic
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Competition (Not!!) Dummies ..Daily Kos
Dummie Folding Threads #7 #8 #9#10#11 #12
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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
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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_mechanics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFcp2Xpd29I
Simulation of millisecond protein folding: NTL9
There's truly never a dull moment in folding land!
What if I set it up in a VM?
You can also fold in a browser here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/nacl/
Just add team and user name, save and fold away.
Well ... you can hardly be surprised that a lot of us did not know what this was all about.
The last update you posted (#52) is over six years old.
Some of us older FReepers are lucky we can remember what we did six days ago.
Seems to me that if this is such a financial boon to FR, you might be promoting it during every FReepathon.
Uh, Saturday?
:^P
I haven't checked lately but a high percentage of folders were also in the 300 club.
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