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Folding@home - Michael - 05-25-2011
As gamers most of us have got reasonable CPUs and a lot of us leave our machines on idle cause we're lazy or because we're downloading something completely legal over a p2p network.
Well, folding@Home is a way to do something worthwhile with all that spare power sitting around doing nothing. Basically it's a distributed computing network that's used for simulating protein folding, this kind of research has all kinds of potential medical benefits.
Costs you nothing, and really isn't much of a resource hog when you run it in the background.
http://folding.stanford.edu/
You can also get it for your PS3. Which might be pretty cool. One day we might tell our grandkids that we cured cancer with our games consoles.
RE: Folding@home - Adam - 05-25-2011
I remember leaving my laptop on when I was bored and finished processing 200/200 for Alzheimer Disease Protein Folding. It is a good cause. They also research different types of cancer, and diseases.
RE: Folding@home - Flatcher - 05-27-2011
Made a Folding@Home team, mIKe's-ReVeNGe with team id # 207138
RE: Folding@home - Adam - 05-27-2011
I'm gonna leave my laptop on with the new id to process some info.
RE: Folding@home - Michael - 05-27-2011
joined the mR team. we need to get the WU above zero lol.
you can point the team page to our website too.
RE: Folding@home - Flatcher - 05-27-2011
(05-27-2011, 05:30 PM)Michael Wrote: joined the mR team. we need to get the WU above zero lol.
you can point the team page to our website too.
Did that + logo
RE: Folding@home - Michael - 05-27-2011
FLATCHER IS CREDIT TO TEAM
RE: Folding@home - Michael - 06-03-2011
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=207138
that's our stats page.
RE: Folding@home - TheWorst - 06-03-2011
I think I will be using both our PC's....
How do you get your name on the list and how long does it take to start showing progress?
RE: Folding@home - Michael - 06-03-2011
you just put in the team number: 207138 in the settings bit.