Poll: The Great OcUK DC Census [Poll]

Why aren’t you folding?

  • I am, for OcUK.

    Votes: 64 12.1%

  • I am, for another team.

    Votes: 12 2.3%

  • I’m running a BOINC project instead.

    Votes: 29 5.5%

  • I don't know what it is.

    Votes: 41 7.7%

  • I can't be bothered.

    Votes: 164 30.9%

  • I thought it made my pc run slower.

    Votes: 10 1.9%

  • I don't think my PC is powerful enough.

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • I don't think I can run it on my computer.

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • I don't have time

    Votes: 15 2.8%

  • Pc gets too hot/noisy/uses too much power.

    Votes: 140 26.4%

  • I thought you'd need to run your computer 24/7?

    Votes: 8 1.5%

  • It's all just pretend isn't it? They haven't actually found anything have they?

    Votes: 19 3.6%

  • Why should I spend money doing research for a drugs company who charge me for what's produced?

    Votes: 18 3.4%

  • It will stress my pc and cause parts to fail prematurely

    Votes: 8 1.5%
  • Total voters
    530
I'm a traitor, but then I started folding for a forum I have been a member of for 2.5 years, so folding for OcUK would make me a bigger traitor for the other one (which I rarely visit at the moment.)

Pedrsuade me *Insert an inappropiate war word*. :p

Edit: Out of interest, how much does it cost in electricity to run folding above the cost of having the PC idle?
 
Trifid said:
Edit: Out of interest, how much does it cost in electricity to run folding above the cost of having the PC idle?
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According to Basmic about £1 per week, but i'm not sure how many pc's that was and if they were on 24/7 or what. It also depends on the pc itself and the cost of electricity.
 
Admiral Huddy said:
LOL - you don't have to do anything.. just let your PC do the work.. :) takes 5 minutes to set up.
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Not trying to defend the lazy but: "you don't have to do anything.....takes 5 minutes to set up."

Maybe it's that 5 minutes? :p
 
ok...what does DC stand for?

What EXACTLY does this thing do for medical research?? How does me letting them use my crap but insanely warm laptop really benefit medical research? What is my Laptop ACTUALLY doing? I'll admit I don't understand and I am lazy and I do have too much on my plate to really be bothered to think about anything that isn't extrememly important right now.

Putting all these PC's running at 100% 24/7 can't be good for global warming, please convince me with FACTS as to why I would want to Farm@Home or whatever its called. :confused:
 
DC stands for Distrubuted computing, its a way of splitting computational work which would require a super computer amoungst millions of home pcs, as the university that runs Folding at Home cannot afford a huge super computer.
What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
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You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.

Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
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Take a look at the official site: http://folding.stanford.edu/
 
DC stands for Distributed Computing, a method used by research projects round the world that involves sending data over the internet to users machines which then process the data and send back the results. By using this method, HUGE research projects can be supported with a massive amount of processing power, but the project team only actually own a couple of database and web servers. The data F@H concerns is proteins, their structure and what when they are put under different conditions. This way we can find out the in's and out's of these differing molecues which has in the past been known to help medicine.
 
Putting all these PC's running at 100% 24/7 can't be good for global warming
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As has been said a number of times you DO NOT need to run your PC 24/7!

There is absolutely no reason for you to change your computer habits. The software regularly saves its progress, so if and when you turn off your computer, the software will pick up where it left off the next time you reboot.

The only thing this software requires is an internet connection, but I would suspect you have an internet connection if you are reading this :D

SiriusB
 
shadowscotland said:
Point taken spawn - you don't care, that's fine, but some of us do that's all.

Actually some of us 'folders' don't, but still do it for the competition, and that's fine too - we're all different - and Via-va la difference!
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Indeed and it wasnt a pop at the ones running it tbh. Was just answering Zefans question really.
 
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