So, decided if we're going to get serious about recruiting more members, we should have a dictionary for them to find out WTF we're talking about.
Cuz I know the first time I came here I thought you were crazy... Didn't really KNOW it till a few weeks later though. So anyway, Onward:
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36362: best F@H team
Crunching: The process of a computer taking a Work Unit (WUs) and 'crunching' the numbers to calculate their way to the 'answer'.
DC: distributed computing
Downtime: Time for upgrading or maintenance otherwise - WHY AREN'T YOU CRUNCHING?!?!
Farm: That pile of silicon and fans sitting in heaps around these people's houses. (and of course others)
EL WU: -bigadv work units (expand with a link)
F@H: Folding at Home
Folding: A different way of approaching the same problem as crunching, but instead of crunching numbers to arrive at a conclusion, a model is made of how the individual ammino acids inside of a protein fold and how this effects that proteins structure. (And therefore how it effects the cell)
Idle: The worst sin your computer can commit.
PHII/P II/P-II/PII/P2: Phenom II and NOT Pentium II
Pie: Your daily goal. Mmmh...
(The break down of the top 10 contributes of each day)
PPD: Points Per Day
Rig: computer
Setup: computer
SMP: Symmetric Multiprocessing
ST/strig/st rig: SkullTrail
WUs: Work Unit, the small packets sent out to individual computers to be "crunched"
WCG: World Community Grid
WAF: Wife Acceptance Factor
*Points are boinc and credits are wcg specific (~ boinc points * 7)
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Please add words, alternate definitions, or just about anything you feel like. Nothing is stupid. If your first time here you didn't know what someone was talking about, (or still don't) here's your chance to help someone else.
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