Posted on 04/15/2007 7:39:44 PM PDT by texas booster
Inner Life of the Cell: Animation conception and scientific content by Alain Viel and Robert A. Lue.
Animation by John Liebler/XVIVO.
SIGGRAPH Award Winning Video
It is geared toward training doctors and researchers, and gets pretty heavy into the organized structure of cells.
In Folding@home the goal is to simulate the actual atoms and molecular forces that force a protein to fold in a particular manner. When the molecules of a protein unzip to replicate or to contact another protein is the focus of our research. F@H looks at the folds a protein makes and the forces that allow/disallow a particular bond.
F@H concerns itself with the molecules that make up the structures in the video.
Extremely fascinating. Please have a look!
And when done viewing the video, please consider downloading the F@H program and getting a protein to fold for yourself.
New Folding thread ping!
This is a great video. While not connected to the Pande Group at Stanford, it is a state-of-the-art animation of actions within a cell.
Really worth a moment of your time!
New Folding thread ping!
This is a great video. While not connected to the Pande Group at Stanford, it is a state-of-the-art animation of actions within a cell.
Really worth a moment of your time!
And most likely the simulation only touches the tip of the mountain.
The choreography and timing depicted in the cell are stunning, mindiboggling.
These are not random, chaotic, happenstance physical actions and reactions. This is a trillion cell dance of stupefying complexity and uncanny coordination.
Some of the shorter words sounded very much like English. :=) It made me glad that I took up something as simple as computer programming.
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 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 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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I was hoping that they would react with glee at how wonderfully our bodies are made.
Lets just say that the eyes started glazing over with the first “leukocytes” and never unglazed.
I hope that FReepers will give it more of a chance, despite the language.
Or at least look at the pretty pictures ...
Bingo!
The deeper that we delve into the biology of life the more the mystery grows.
While I don’t have a time scale on the video, if there is one, most of these reactions occur in microseconds.
Millions of times in each cell, times trillions of cells in a body, times millions of seconds in a life, times the vast diversity of life that exists from a whale to an underwater bacteria living at the bottom of the ocean.
Its a little more than a coincidence.
Remember:
Mac, MacTel, PS3, Linux and Windows systems can all help us fold to make a difference!
Anybody here using the ATI streaming processor software for folding yet? WHen the new DAAMIT video cards come out I am switching to them seeing as nVidia drivers suck and I havent dared to fold yet on Vista but I do want to get back into the ‘fold’.
Awesome video!
36120 bump!
And it is even more ‘of a clue’ than that.
There is not one of those processes that can be duplicated by any means (imperfect replication) outside of the cell.
Life itself is both an enigma, and a tribute to his glory.
My eyes didn't glaze over but my ears did hurt a bit. :=)
The narration reminded me of a very old Rockwell spoof commercial. It was for their brand-new, highly cross-planarized, oscillating, self-resonant framistat or some such outlandish thing.
IBM supposedly has an entire floor devoted to abusing the new processors, but they are not folding, just stress testing.
There is an active alpha program at Stanford testing the R600 series chips, and soon the integrated video chips will be tested.
Streaming teraflop-in-a-box DAMMIT chips are still several quarters away from reaching us, but the geeks that I talk to really think that they will leapfrog both NVidia and Intel.
As good as the video is, it is even better to start folding on one of your systems.
Its not hard, and we WILL be here to help you get started.
Using a 1950 Pro to fold on one machine. It tends to do quite well (not quite the level of SMP, but not bad either). It seems the results from the ATI card almost match the point level of the PS3, and they can work on different proteins.
No matter what you fold on, it will do some good. A simple PC can fold virtually any protein type. SMP machines can also fold virtually any type and do so very quickly. Mac’s match the PC (single and smp) in their flexiblity (don’t have any of them though). ATI (GPU) and PS3 clients do specialized folding which is a bit more limited, but they do it very fast.
So it doesn’t really matter what you have, it will contribute and make the world a better place.
One important note: make sure you put 36120 as the team name (FR gets credit) and josephw as the username (I get credit - or use your own and take credit for yourself).
Remember everyone can help and we have consistently blown away the DU as we believe in charity and they are waiting for the govt to send them a cheque for a new system and monthly (welfare) payments to show their good will.
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