[Vendome]

IBTZ

[Vision Thing]

U Got Zot!

[ifinnegan]

Congrats!

Do you know if there are any publications that compare computationally folded proteins done in this project with their determined crystal structures?

[doc1019]

Didn’t know there was a “point “ system.

[BenLurkin]

[moovova]

Go to bed, Barack...you got an early tee time.

[Jane Long]

Pingaling!

[Heart-Rest]

And to think it all started with just one single solitary point.

[shibumi]

"Minutus cantorum,
minutus balorum,
minutus carborata
descendum pantorum."

Pinging Electro Mod, Keeper of the Sacred Zot Bolts!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Points from the pointless.

[greedo]

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folding.stanford.edu

Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan

[montanajoe]

Baahh

I got 1.3 billion in Boinc overall and am 330 or so in the world without Bitcoin.

That said good going. It's good to see there are a few others out there using this massive computing power we have been blessed with to do more than complain about the idiot politicians...

[Drago]

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

[texas booster]

Thanks!

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!

[texas booster]

Pinging the F@H team!

We hit a Billion points!

[texas booster]

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 (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

Folding@home Client Download

FreeRepublic.com Folder Stats

Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic

Folding@home New Forum

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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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[texas booster]

And for those of us that learn best visually:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFcp2Xpd29I

Simulation of millisecond protein folding: NTL9

There's truly never a dull moment in folding land!

[Nifster]

Not news and too obtuse to be activism.

You sign up two weeks ago to post this nonsense?

[Delta 21]

And just think. My 4 computers just sat here and Freeped the whole time.

I think I'm better for it.

[Lazamataz]

No.