Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 7th September 2007

Can someone explain F@H to me please. I have noticed it on my ps3 but i've never understood the point of it.

I'll point you to the folding@home website http://folding.stanford.edu/ but in a nutshell, "folding" aims to understand how proteins fold and mis-fold which can lead to diseases such as cancer and alzheimers.

What happens is, rather than Stanford running these simulations on one supercomputer, they are broken up into chunks and distributed to volunteers who have installed the client on their computer(s). Your computer runs the simulation and then uploads the results. These results are then credited with points which go towards your score.

There are no prizes for points, maybe just a warm feeling of being charitable and the fact we all have a bit of a lark around in this forum for a bit of fun.

I know some people use it as an excuse to have the latest and greatest hardware. :p

Anyway, my short post turned into a few paragraphs so I'll sum up:

If you want to contribute to science, just set your PS3 running. If you need any specfic help just make a new thread but the PS3 client is a synch to get going. If you get "the bug" you'll probably want to get your PC folding too so any questions just ask. :)

edit - argh rich beat me to it!
 
I decided on a change and joined up with you lot. I noticed the forums when buying stuff from ocuk. I have the following spec computers:-

1 x Q6600 2.4 overclocked to 3330.00 (B3 stepping)
1 x Q6600 2.4 running stock (B3 stepping)
1 x E6600 2.4
1 x Playstation 3
1 x Pentium 4E 3.2
1 x Pentium 4A 1.7
 
I decided on a change and joined up with you lot. I noticed the forums when buying stuff from ocuk. I have the following spec computers:-

1 x Q6600 2.4 overclocked to 3330.00 (B3 stepping)
1 x Q6600 2.4 running stock (B3 stepping)
1 x E6600 2.4
1 x Playstation 3
1 x Pentium 4E 3.2
1 x Pentium 4A 1.7

Niiiiiiiice!

Welcome to Team 10 :)
 
I decided on a change and joined up with you lot. I noticed the forums when buying stuff from ocuk. I have the following spec computers:-

1 x Q6600 2.4 overclocked to 3330.00 (B3 stepping)
1 x Q6600 2.4 running stock (B3 stepping)
1 x E6600 2.4
1 x Playstation 3
1 x Pentium 4E 3.2
1 x Pentium 4A 1.7

wow that's quite a farm there :eek:

Nice to be able to put a "face" to the name - welcome to the forums :)
 
I decided on a change and joined up with you lot. I noticed the forums when buying stuff from ocuk. I have the following spec computers:-

1 x Q6600 2.4 overclocked to 3330.00 (B3 stepping)
1 x Q6600 2.4 running stock (B3 stepping)
1 x E6600 2.4
1 x Playstation 3
1 x Pentium 4E 3.2
1 x Pentium 4A 1.7

Welcome aboard mate. :D
 
With all these over-achievers around here, I expect to see lots of people's rank doing this...

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On the other hand, I think mine's not going to go much further than that. :(
 
Good job guys, does anyone know if this is the first time we've broken 1 million PPW?

If all goes well next week, I should have another 60x E6600s, 10x Q6600s under team 10 for a few weeks.
 
If all goes well next week, I should have another 60x E6600s, 10x Q6600s under team 10 for a few weeks.

That'll be 2M points/week then. An E6600 at stock running SMP client should do 1200PPD minimum, so that's 72,000PPD, plus the Quads should do 2,200PPD each so you're looking at 100,000PPD if you can swing that lot.

Do you have a sister?:D
 
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