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I don't think it matters what kind of machine you use, since Folding just uses whatever unused cycles that are available. On an old PII it will take about a week to fold one protein, but hey, that's one less protein to fold ;) . As far as stability issues, I haven't heard of any, even on old machines.
Thanks. This program has already helped me; I benchmark but my comp wasn't stable at my overclock on my second wu so I bumped up the vcore and now she is.
I guess I get to fight the IT folks tomorrow to open up the ports to allow my work comps to run; tried today and no go. Anyone know about arguments for/against opening up firewall ports for this let me know ok? Thanks again, this is a good cause. Finally my o/clock has a purpose! Plus which I teach science and this can tie in.
Thought I'd bump this thread since I see a lot of newer people here.
For those of you who don't know what folding is...Stanford University is doing research on cancer and how certain proteins behavior relates to getting cancer. They have lots of numbers to crunch, too many for themselves to handle. So what they do is let other peoples computers crunch the numbers, and the results are sent back to them. You simply download the folding client, tweak it a little bit(there's instructions for all this HERE ), and then its pretty self-sufficient after that.
It only uses the cpu cycles that you're not using. Once you start doing something, it backs off and gives priority to whatever you're doing. It's very simple and is for a great cause, curing cancer. So I would ask that all of you reading this post/thread, join the Sharky Forums Folding Team.
Folding Team Thread
Thanks everyone!:D
Aaw.. at first I thought that saps was back. :( Nice bump tho speedy. :)
Arg........Tricked me into thinking Saps was back.
^^^ I was thinking the same thing. :(
cripes, sorry guys...just trying to recruit more people for a good cause.:)
Not only are there a lot of new people who may not know about Folding, there are also a lot of OLD people who used to Fold but aren't any more. Back when this thread first ran we got a big influx of new people to the Sharky Folding team and went from #4658 (or something like that) to the #45 team internationally in about 3 months. Since then we've been stuck, mainly because there are only ~25 active Folders still on the team.
Come on guys, help us (and everyone else) out here! It doesn't cost you a dime and won't interfere with your computing, but it WILL help out a lot of sick people in the long-run, something to be proud of :D .
I've been folding 24/7 ever since the beginning. Come on people. get sharky's name out there.
24/7 Except when I need power for games
i've never really done any folding but im gonna try to remember to leave it on. Should have my first wu done in 39 hours, got my big xp 2000 @ 1.83 ghz :p
nttdemented with a (currently) 3.5Ghz P4 Prescott at your services Sharkies...
Gonna start it now and never look back. I just hope my damn PSU doesn't start overheating during the day time and starts restarting my PC (reason why I'm at 3.5 instad of 3.7 like in my sig, need a new PSU).
awesome, thanks primate and ntt!:cool:
edit: and I know you're folding murtaza, i've been eyeing you getting closer to me everyday in the rankings..:p
Hopefully some farms will start back up again (I won't name names) with the colder weather coming in.
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Originally posted by speedyaxon
Thought I'd bump this thread since I see a lot of newer people here.
For those of you who don't know what folding is...Stanford University is doing research on cancer and how certain proteins behavior relates to getting cancer. They have lots of numbers to crunch, too many for themselves to handle. So what they do is let other peoples computers crunch the numbers, and the results are sent back to them. You simply download the folding client, tweak it a little bit(there's instructions for all this HERE ), and then its pretty self-sufficient after that.
It only uses the cpu cycles that you're not using. Once you start doing something, it backs off and gives priority to whatever you're doing. It's very simple and is for a great cause, curing cancer. So I would ask that all of you reading this post/thread, join the Sharky Forums Folding Team.
Folding Team Thread
Thanks everyone!:D