Who wants to cure disease for team 36362?

[pythagoras]

Please post if you wish to use your spare cpu cycles to help find a cure for diseases.

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

xtremesystems.org has a new team and a new start. Team number is 36362.

regards

John.

Fold on!

[pythagoras]

Its getting awfully lonely in here

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/m...&teamnum=36362

Regards

John.

[bmg]

Originally posted by pythagoras
Its getting awfully lonely in here

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/m...&teamnum=36362

Regards

John.

I've got 2 machines moved to 36362 now.

[Assasin-uk]

Thanks bmg, glad to have you here...

FOLD ON m8

[robsession]

This might be a dumb question but, what is folding?

[twiggy]

Originally posted by robsession
This might be a dumb question but, what is folding?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...threadid=16525

[robsession]

What does that have to do with computers?

[PS2pcGAMER]

Originally posted by robsession
What does that have to do with computers?

It uses your idle computer cycles to analyze little bits of data. After it is done analyzing the set or "Work Unit" (WU) it sends it back to stanford. Basically F@H simulates how different proteins react in different situations.

If scientists can better understand how proteins act and react, they might be able to cure cancer and other diseases faster.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.

[robsession]

So what exactly does it do to your computer? Is it sort of like a stress test?

[PS2pcGAMER]

Originally posted by robsession
[B]So what exactly does it do to your computer?

Kinda, it can push your computer pretty hard. It just uses your spare computer power to help science.

[robsession]

Originally posted by PS2pcGAMER
Kinda, it can push your computer pretty hard. It just uses your spare computer power to help science.

Ok I get it now..... I think

[PS2pcGAMER]

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/

This link explains it a little better.

[robsession]

Now it makes more sense.

[NoEcho]

Originally posted by pythagoras
Please post if you wish to use your spare cpu cycles to help find a cure for diseases.

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

xtremesystems.org has a new team and a new start. Team number is 36362.

regards

John.

Fold on!

The old team still exists, does it not? Why start a new team?

[BuickBeast]

Originally posted by NoEcho
The old team still exists, does it not? Why start a new team?

I'm wondering that too. I still fold for the old one.

[bmg]

Team 3365 is jbell's team. It goes wherever jbell goes, and he's not here.

[NoEcho]

None of us are here. We're all in virtual space. Where has Jbell gone?

[Assasin-uk]

If you want to fold for XtremeSytems please use team 36362

Unlike DF the owner of the team can move it from place to place whenever they like. And this is what the "owner" of the fold@home team did.Which is pretty unfair realy, he moves and takes all your points with him if you like it or not...

The new team will stay as XS and will not be moved at all ever!
That is why the new fold @ home leader was chosen, he is ready to give the "keys" to the team over at any point.


pythagoras is a great leader and well repected throughout the community..

Fold for XS

Team 36362

[wimpie007]

I've never heard of him...
And I honestly don't see what's wrong with the old team?

[Assasin-uk]

As i have already pointed out:

The owner of the old team is not folding for XS anymore. He took the team and the point and left here.

So now if you want to fold for xtremesystems.org you must use the NEW team..

Clear enough?

[Mrstickinit]

I'm folding for us (36362) now too. I only have three machines currently folding and only about 6 hours per day but I'm doing what I can to help us out.

User name is [SOB]Mrstickinit

[Assasin-uk]

Thanks for joining m8..

Speak to pythagoras if you need any help..


Glad you could join the team..

[pythagoras]

Bump

[winterburnd]

I think I'll join F@H for xtremesystems here. F@H doesn't make my computer run nearly as hot as D2OL, plus we need more attention here to get up in the ranks.

[pythagoras]

Welcome to the team Winterburnd

Regards

John.