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| For those of you who don't know, folding@home is a program which you can download to help with medical research. It will use your computer's extra processing cycles to calculate the folding of proteins then send the results to the main server. In this way it uses millions of computers to calculate much faster than a supercomputer could. Because it only uses the free processing cycles there should be no noticeable slow down with your computer, it simply won't calculate anything if your using 100% of your cpu.
QUOTE: 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.
To help out you can just download folding@home from their official download page and run it on your computer. All the work units your computer finishes will be attributed to the username of your choice, so people can see how much you have helped. You can even join a team and work to beat the other teams, if anybody here wants to join a team; I have one. You can see my current team rating at: this page. And join by entering my team number (125561) in your f@h settings. Joining a team doesn't hurt your user-score, it just also applies your points to that team.
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| Yep, and you get the satisfaction of helping scientists out. |
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| If you guys use your pyco account names (the names on this forum) then I can possibly give out awards for people who help. If your names taken you could always do something like Pyco-KaBob799 for your name.
If anybody does decide to help, don't be discouraged by how long it takes to do a work unit. Just let it run and you'll start earning points, every little bit helps. |
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| If anyone has problems figuring out the settings to use on f@h I can help  |
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| I just hit the 100 work unit milestone =D
Though I see nobody else is helping =p |
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I has no idea what you are talking about *hides*
QUOTE: I think this is a great idea... I downloaded it and joined your team...
You get a cheese award for being the first to help out
I guess I will also have to go design f@h specific awards =p |
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| Yeah the bigger ones are worth a lot more points |
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| Just the Pyco Productions one: 125561
I would have PT only one if it was possible to be in more than one group at a time  |
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| BUMP!
Now that its finally getting cold for winter I'm gonna be doing a lot of folding (my laptop heats up my room too much when its warm), you guys should help out!
Pyco is currently rated 19005/168289 =o |
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KaBob799 | | 11/23/09 06:20 am - Last edited 11/23/09 06:21 am by KaBob799 | Filter - Reply #9 |
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| He said he wasn't going to download it. He did nothing for laziness reason.
I've already finished 1 (or was it 2?) and im halfway to finishing another =o This winter is off to a good start. |
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KaBob799 | | 07/15/11 08:48 am - Last edited 07/15/11 05:35 pm by KaBob799 | Filter - Reply #10 |
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| You don't have to register, just install the client from http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download Stick the shortcut in your start up folder so it auto-runs and then from the taskbar right click on it and configure it with your username and the team number (ours is 125561) Then let it run =D
Current team ranking: 14079 of 202575
Lets go for top 10000! |
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| This is a pretty huge bump but I just checked and we've reached rank 6985, a pretty big jump from the 14079 we were at in 2011 =p
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=125561 |
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KaBob799 | | 03/22/14 05:52 pm - Last edited 03/22/14 06:05 pm by KaBob799 | Filter - Reply #12 |
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| I finally got around to making the awards for this!
Currently the tiers are 5k points:  50k points:  200k points: 
Someday I'll probably redesign the image so we can have 25k and 100k tiers but for now this will have to do. This does mean you will have to wait a while to get the first award but I decided that people really need to do at least a few work units before they earn the first one, otherwise a lot of people might just do 1 or 2 and quit.
This award has to be added manually so tell me whenever you reach one of the tiers. Otherwise, I'll add it myself whenever I notice. |
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I has no idea what you are talking about *hides*
