TexasBooster, please say hello to fellow Folding Booster and new Freeper thatsmyshin.
TexasBooster, hope you don’t mind that I copied most of one of your Folding threads content into this one.
TexasBooster, if you have another current and active thread, please let us know via the abuse button.
Thanks.
Again, welcome to Free Republic, Thatsmyshin.
What is this post about? I do not understand what “folding” is.
What is folding? Why should I care? What does 250,000 ppd mean?
I am long time FReeper. I have no clue as to what”folding” is. Now I have no comouter,only webtv so prob dont need to know.
I copied this from the previous thread...
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 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.
Curious about this...
Are there any tax advantages to doing something like this?
I’m a sys admin. I have a lot of server power that is mostly idle outside of normal business hours.
Possible I could convince my employer to participate - we probably have upwards of 100 pc’s worth of computing power available off hours. If there was a tax advantage, I’d have an easier time making the argument.
Bm
So I can meet this girl.
My wife is a nurse who was taking care of a patient with CJD. She had him enrolled in a program at Emory tofurther study his disease.
Unfortunately, he passed away last Sunday.
I have a spare PC I can make available for this cause and run it inhis memory.
Bad news we’ve slipped to 102 and dropping. In two months we’ll be down to about 105.
We no longer appear in the top 100, where people would notice us!
I’ve brought a few machines online (but they aren’t fast). I used to have a real presence until water damage took out several machines in the past.
Time for us all to put together and at least keep us on the front page even if it will be at 100.
Now is the time for all good Freepers to Fold.