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The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 19th Aug 2009 20:42
As far as I'm aware, there is no TGC Folding@Home team. So I was wondering how many folders there are out there and whether anyone would want to start a TGC Folding Team.
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Silvester
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Posted: 19th Aug 2009 20:58
Folding? Like, a laundry service?

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Omega gamer 89
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Posted: 19th Aug 2009 21:16
Yes, please explain.

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The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 19th Aug 2009 21:27
Ok, it would appear that not as many people know what Folding is as I thought. Basically it is a program which you download to your PC (or PS3 for that matter) which works away in the background to help aid scientific research into something called Gene Folding. Each computer is assigned a job to do, and once it has finished that job it uploads the progress and fetches another job. This way they have hundreds of thousands of computers at their disposal which is like having several supercomputers.

Check the wiki for more info.

Mahoney
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Posted: 19th Aug 2009 21:27
Seriously? Never heard of Folding@Home? 69-

From Wikipedia:

Quote: "Folding@home (sometimes abbreviated as FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing (DC) project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics (MD). It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within Stanford University's chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay Pande. Folding@home is the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world, according to Guinness,[1] and one of the world's largest distributed computing projects.[2] The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases."[3]"


Quote: "Folding@home does not rely on powerful supercomputers for its data processing; instead, the primary contributors to the Folding@home project are many hundreds of thousands of personal computer users who have installed a small client program. The client runs in the background, utilizing otherwise unused CPU power. The older, no longer used version of Folding@home for the the CPU could be run as a screen saver, only folding while the user is away. In most modern personal computers, the CPU is rarely used to its full capacity at all times; the Folding@home client takes advantage of this unused processing power."


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Grandma
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Posted: 19th Aug 2009 21:40
I have participated in "folding" for SETI since 2000. That makes me cool.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 19th Aug 2009 21:46
Folding and SETI @home are both great ways to ensure that cooling systems that didn't work properly anyway in laptops and the like are thoroughly destroyed! Get yours now!

The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 19th Aug 2009 21:47 Edited at: 19th Aug 2009 21:48
You must have quite a high folding score seeming as you are unable to access your computer most of the time due to various arduous tasks such as fighting the new world order

Quote: "Folding and SETI @home are both great ways to ensure that cooling systems that didn't work properly anyway in laptops and the like are thoroughly destroyed! Get yours now!"


Too true, CPU core is 61 degrees at the moment :S I need to invest in a Freezer Pro sometime.

Grandma
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Posted: 19th Aug 2009 21:57
Quote: "You must have quite a high folding score seeming as you are unable to access your computer most of the time due to various arduous tasks such as fighting the new world order"

lol well yes, I have 2 old computers doing that for me. Folding NWO@Home so I don't have to do anything, while my main computer does the important work of looking after aliens.
Oh this is the future indeed.

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The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 19th Aug 2009 23:05
Well, I went ahead and created a team. If you possibly could, then lend a hand Team number is 169976.

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Posted: 20th Aug 2009 10:34
Grandma, I applaud your noble effort to find aliens. But if a UFO landed on the White House lawn the SETI people wouldn't believe it because the aliens didn't contact them first. Aliens are already here and they're still listening for signals from deep space.

Michael P
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Posted: 20th Aug 2009 10:56
If your computer is responsible for finding something amazing e.g. a cure for ageing, do you get any notification of this?

Freddy 007
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Posted: 25th Aug 2009 01:18
Quote: "Well, I went ahead and created a team. If you possibly could, then lend a hand Team number is 169976."


I joined, but it appears I am the only member on the team -_-

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The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 25th Aug 2009 18:30
It hasn't quite caught on Give it a bit of time and hopefully a few more people will join. My name would be up there but unfortunately due to a powercut I lost all my current progress and so I have 0 points D:

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