OT: How about a Raptors board folding@home team?

JN · Post #21 » by JN » Thu Feb 7, 2008 4:28 pm

I'm confused

davkad · Post #22 » by **davkad** » Thu Feb 7, 2008 4:35 pm

I hope TJ installs this on his home computer(s) before he goes on vacation again...

If you're not gonna help the raptors win games and try and reclaim the atlantic (pretty much unfathomable now), then atleast help out humanity... maybe they will find a cure for his stenosis

Post #23 » by **theSkinny** » Thu Feb 7, 2008 4:41 pm

YogiStewart wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

popup blocker...isn't that the lever i push down if i want my Pop Tarts to toast a bit longer?

No no its that heavy piece of metal you hang over your toaster so your pop tarts dont fly out when ejected

I put on my smarty pants today

cdel00 · Post #24 » by **cdel00** » Thu Feb 7, 2008 4:53 pm

boo i use an NVidia GPU

doesn't work for me

Usuyami · Post #25 » by **Usuyami** » Thu Feb 7, 2008 5:09 pm

It's basically donating to charity but not in the monetary sense. Can't really be surprised that few people are interested.

dvflrd · Post #26 » by **dvflrd** » Thu Feb 7, 2008 10:27 pm

Hey guys, it seems like some people were interested afterall so I set up a team. I would like to encourage everyone to download the program here
http://folding.stanford.edu/.

If you have a ps3, you can download it from your ps3 as well. The ps3 is really powerful so it helps alot if you download it on the ps3.

Once you download the program, right click on the program in the tool bar, click on configure and then enter the raptors team number which is 109196.

Once you are set up, recruit as many people as you can! The more people we recruit, the higher our team will rise in the ranks! And, of course, the the faster scientists will be able to understand protien folding which will hopefully result in cures for diseases!

PapeSowish · Post #27 » by **PapeSowish** » Fri Feb 8, 2008 12:05 am

Yeah, I run this on my PS3 as well. Interesting stuff.

Black Milk · Post #28 » by **Black Milk** » Fri Feb 8, 2008 2:53 am

cdel00 wrote:boo i use an NVidia GPU doesn't work for me

what does your GPU have to do with anything that program is doing...

Tom Baker · Post #29 » by **Tom Baker** » Fri Feb 8, 2008 3:02 am

I'm not lost. I understand how this works and what it's for. And I'm not against charity.

I'm just hopelessly paranoid.

mintsa · Post #30 » by **mintsa** » Fri Feb 8, 2008 4:32 am

PapeSowish wrote:Yeah, I run this on my PS3 as well. Interesting stuff.

I knew this "folding at home" sounded familiar, it's on the ps3. I never did download and try it out...is it worth the time & effort ?

undisputed55 · Post #31 » by **undisputed55** » Fri Feb 8, 2008 4:43 am

downloaded the program and joined the team...it says there's nobody else on the team tho?

dvflrd · Post #32 » by **dvflrd** » Fri Feb 8, 2008 7:22 am

undisputed55 wrote:downloaded the program and joined the team...it says there's nobody else on the team tho?

Yeah I noticed that. I'm guessing that you need to complete a work unit before it adds your name to the team.

dvflrd · Post #33 » by **dvflrd** » Fri Feb 8, 2008 7:27 am

mintsa wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
I knew this "folding at home" sounded familiar, it's on the ps3. I never did download and try it out...is it worth the time & effort ?

It takes almost no time and effort. Your ps3 will do the work for you. I totally think its worth the time and effort, around 50 scientific research papers have been published from the results so far. Understanding protien folding is key to understanding many diseases.

highlightstick · Post #34 » by **highlightstick** » Fri Feb 8, 2008 8:27 am

Protein Folding!!! =D

mintsa · Post #35 » by **mintsa** » Fri Feb 8, 2008 2:04 pm

dvflrd wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

It takes almost no time and effort. Your ps3 will do the work for you. I totally think its worth the time and effort, around 50 scientific research papers have been published from the results so far. Understanding protien folding is key to understanding many diseases.

So the folding at home on the ps3 also works with the folding at home on the pc ??

If guys join here with there pc's and guys join on there ps3's they can still be on the same folding at home team ??

cdel00 · Post #36 » by **cdel00** » Fri Feb 8, 2008 6:06 pm

dkhan02 wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

what does your GPU have to do with anything that program is doing...

From the Wikipedia link

As of October 2, 2006, the Folding@home GPU client has been released into the public as a beta test. After 9 days of processing from the Beta client the Folding@home project had received 31 teraFLOPs of computational performance from just 450 X1900 GPUs, averaging at over 70x the performance of current CPU submissions.[2] The next FAH GPU client will support 2xxx/3xxx series of ATI GPUs, there are no FAH GPU clients for Nvidia GPUs.[17]

dvflrd · Post #37 » by **dvflrd** » Fri Feb 8, 2008 10:03 pm

mintsa wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

So the folding at home on the ps3 also works with the folding at home on the pc ??

If guys join here with there pc's and guys join on there ps3's they can still be on the same folding at home team ??

Yes! You can run the program on your pc or ps3 or both and be on the team. You just need to enter the team number.

mintsa · Post #38 » by **mintsa** » Fri Feb 8, 2008 10:26 pm

Cool. Thanks for the info.