23 nVidia GTX295 GPU Folding Farm!

Google is your friend :)

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Ok that might have sounded harsh:

Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest computers systems in the world to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
 
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CatMangler said:
Google is your friend :)

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Ok that might have sounded harsh:

Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest computers systems in the world to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
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Nope didn't seem harsh, just me being sleep and not using common sense

Ben M said:
see post 7 in this thread
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Thanks

Btw. Just downloading software now going to install it on all my machines :)

Ninja
 
besides finding a few really high numbers, has folding actually ever produced anything? (besides a few ££ for the electricity companies?)
 
theforce said:
Well if the guy has the money and wants to spend it on research, then that l think is not a bad thing to do.
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I was ready to say tbh while youd like to think that he most perobably did it coz he has the money and is a mega geek and wants to say he has teh best system/ biggest e-peen.

Then i read:

slylittlefox said:
The guys dad suffers from Huntington's disease, you can read more at atlasfolding.com.

Tis one nice setup he's got :eek: :D
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And well i dont blame him, i would say good on him for doing it for research. But its not quite the same when hes trying to save his own ass. Still, more then im doing! I dont even fold.
 
@ bledd. - there is a list of publications at http://folding.stanford.edu which list all of their current published articles. A lot relate to the development of simulation methods.

(Slightly less @ bledd!) F@H is not necessarily about trying to find cures for diseases (at least, has not set out explicitly to do so), but is rather about trying to understand and find methods to computationally recreate process of protein (mis)folding that can lead to debilitating problems. I think this is a common misconception people have about folding. Research of this type would be done anyway with or without the DC part, but may not necessarily be of this scale or would just take longer/require a supercomputer. Whether it will amount to anything, i dont think anyone can say for sure, but if it helps to develop computational methods and improve our model of biological systems, i think its a good cause.

A recent post by the project coordinator mentioned that they had found some target molecules that may be able to help tackle a specific disease (off the top of my head, i cannot remember exactly which disease these molecules could help to alleviate) and were awaiting for peer-reviewed publictaion before they took it any further.
 
^thanks for the response, I wasn't rubbishing folding, just wondering if they had found anything using it yet :)
 
Don't forget we have a OcUk team for folding and other distributed networking tasks here right down near the bottom of the list of board sections.
 
bledd. said:
^thanks for the response, I wasn't rubbishing folding, just wondering if they had found anything using it yet :)
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Thats right, you weren't! :p

I hope the post wasnt overly formal sounding/harsh - it was meant to be something informative for those who werent sure what folding is/does. Biffa is right - anyone who is interested check out the F@H website and join OCuK!
 
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