The Escapist and Distributed Computing - or "Would you join an Escapist Folding@Home team?"

[ResonanceSD]

So, does anyone here fold?

Protein Folding is just one of many ways you can use your PC or PS3. FOR SCIENCE!

If you're into overclocking your PC at all, you'll likely have heard of F@H.

It's a great way to help out the scientific community, F@H looks at the process of how proteins fold and how they might cause disease, of particular focus for them is Alzheimers disease.

(http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Science)

So, would you join an Escapist Folding team?

 

[Joccaren]

Yeah, I did a bit of folding a while back. Problem is that my PC is off when I'm not using it, and when I'm using it I don't want the massive slowdown folding causes, so I stopped. Had both GPUs and my CPU folding back when I did fold though, though OCing didn't seem to do a ton [Probably because CPU folding was too slow for it to make a noticeable difference, even with a 40% increase to clock speeds, and I wasn't willing to OC my GPUs too much without getting better cooling first].

 

[Basement Cat]

I have a biology degree but never used it. I'm not familiar with what you're talking about.

And yes, it sounds like a Group Club I'd be interested in joining.

Though you KNOW we'll have to claim the title of the Escapist's Mad-Scientist Club.

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Science

I copied the site link because the parentheses you used blocked the link.

Silly scientist!!!

 

[ResonanceSD]

I have a biology degree but never used it. I'm not familiar with what you're talking about.

And yes, it sounds like a Group Club I'd be interested in joining.

Though you KNOW we'll have to claim the title of the Escapist's Mad-Scientist Club.

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Science

I copied the site link because the parentheses you used blocked the link.

Silly scientist!!!

Hmm, could be an idea, not really much interest though -_-'

 

[Basement Cat]

Hmm, could be an idea, not really much interest though -_-'

Dude, people have to actually SEE the thread to become aware of it in order to show whether or not they're interested in it.

Come back at me--through this thread--later...and with some more info on the project.

In addition we can talk about our theoretical mad scientist group, search the forum groups and threads, etc.

Hardly any of these people have seen your thread...and when they do look we'll need to have info as well as a sense of community to keep folks interested and involved.

Savvy?

 

[recruit00]

So, does anyone here fold?

Protein Folding is just one of many ways you can use your PC or PS3. FOR SCIENCE!

If you're into overclocking your PC at all, you'll likely have heard of F@H.

It's a great way to help out the scientific community, F@H looks at the process of how proteins fold and how they might cause disease, of particular focus for them is Alzheimers disease.

(http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Science)

So, would you join an Escapist Folding team?

PS3 is cutting its Folding@Home program, so it's cut down to PCs and smartphones that support it. A shame too. Sony, screwing over Michael J Fox (Yes, I know it's Parkinson's) since 2012.

 

[antidonkey]

I used to have all the unused machines at my job folding several years ago. All of those machines have since been wiped to gotten rid of though and I never bothered setting anything up again. I think it's because there was a general loss of interest within the team I was folding with.

 

[Gordon Freemonty]

No, because its a pain in the ass when I try to game and wonder why the hell my multiplayer game is lagging so much. (True Story)

 

[Esotera]

Last time I tried distributed computing I was using Linux as my primary OS and the package was absolutely terrible...it didn't respond at all to my configuration settings & decided to go full steam ahead with all four of my cores 100% of the time. It didn't uninstall properly either and left quite a mess behind in files.

I think anyone who wants to do it should be, but the amount of server resources my university alone wastes doesn't make me feel to bad about not participating. We have around 300 decent servers and only 100 of them are ever used intensively...tasking 200 idle computers should be an easy thing to do for academia and is going to make a sizeable dent in most problems, whatever their specs.