i can't fold :-( - Page 2

11th June 2003, 03:44

Quote:

Originally posted by Bosw8er

You are joking aaight ?
You shutdown a program ... and it stops ...

Exactly HOW hot is it in your room ?

You fold : you get points
You manually shut down a program and it stops : no points here

You'll appear in the rankings as soon as you have FINISHED ONE wu ... that means: completed the 50.000 cycles you mentioned.

but still thx for joining the team

11th June 2003, 06:16

This might seem stupid but can somebody tell me what folding is?
I have no clue what I should think of that.
Is it some kind of benchmark tool?

RichBa5tard · 11th June 2003, 06:33

Quote:

Originally posted by MTfreak
This might seem stupid but can somebody tell me what folding is?
I have no clue what I should think of that.
Is it some kind of benchmark tool?

Quote:

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/

Basicly, folding is running a little app in the background, that uses your unused cpupower for a good cause.

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11th June 2003, 06:16	#12
MTfreak Posts: n/a	This might seem stupid but can somebody tell me what folding is? I have no clue what I should think of that. Is it some kind of benchmark tool?