Folding@Home questions

TheCrow

TheCrow

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Hey,

We were asked (told) at uni to research into an area of computing that may interest us. I picked folding as I had seen it on here (GD) before, after initial research it seams really interesting with much information on the bio/chem side of things not so much that I can find on the computing side of things. Do you have any links to such information? Total data sizes been handled, storage etc.

I’m also interested in the competitive side of things, the teams (yes I am now part of your team) When were teams introduced? Why? Etc?

Basically any links you have to interesting parts of Folding@Home (but mainly the computer side of things) would be really appreciated.

(ill hopefully be able to refine my questions when i have more knowledge, but this is a good start I feel)

Thanks
 
welcome to the team crow.

Links to standford who host the DC project here of special note are the sections under this heading FAQs on FAH calculations (Cores)

Link to wiki here

That should get you started.

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Total size of data? nearing the Petaflop scale (1,000,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second world wide)

Number of servers here
 
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Re Teams:
Teams have always been part of FAH. Teams are a common thread in DC projects. They exist so as to build group camaraderie. One person might be able to recruit a few people to assist in the project. A large team worth of people can be much more effective in recruiting. After all, the whole reason for points/teams is to get more work crunched. The points are your reward for crunching. They don't have money to give away or anything else like they. They've taken something that's essentially worthless (a number on a website) and made it so valuable that people are willing to compete with each other to get and maintain hold of it. It's ingenious, really.
 
Yeah. Teams and points are just a way of getting people in and keeping them there.

I don't think half of the DC projects out there would be nearly as popular if it weren't for the teams and points aspect.

Especially Seti

Plus, I think project managers know that more people do it for the points than the science anyway.
 
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