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Do you use Folding@Home?

Yes, I use it on my PC.	36%	[ 5 ]
Yes, I use it on my Mac.	0%	[ 0 ]
Yes, I use it on my PS3.	0%	[ 0 ]
Yes, but my system isn't listed here.	0%	[ 0 ]
I downloaded it after reading this post.	0%	[ 0 ]
I'm already running another distributed computing project.	14%	[ 2 ]
No, I don't use Folding@Home.	36%	[ 5 ]
I still don't understand this "Folding@Home" thing!	14%	[ 2 ]

Total votes : 14

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17 Oct 2010, 9:42 pm

Do you use Folding@Home? If so, what system do you use it on? How often do you use it? Are you running it on multiple devices?

If aren't using it, then you should download it here.

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17 Oct 2010, 9:53 pm

I used to a long time ago, but I forgot about it maybe 5 years ago.

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17 Oct 2010, 11:38 pm

Ok, old f*rt here, what is folding@home, and why should I do it there?...
I eat protein, but rarely fold it, unless it's on pizza...

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17 Oct 2010, 11:56 pm

pakled wrote:

Ok, old f*rt here, what is folding@home, and why should I do it there?...

I eat protein, but rarely fold it, unless it's on pizza...

Proteins are chains of amino acids. These chains fold in very specific ways. The final conformation allows the protein to function correctly in biological systems. In different mediums, proteins will fold differently. If one amino acid is replaced with another, this will also cause a protein to fold differently and thus function differently. Folding@Home is a small program that runs in the background of your computer. It use's your computer's spare processing power to compute how a protein will fold under certain circumstances. It then sends the final result to the servers that deal with Folding@Home. Downloading Folding@Home will allow you to use your computer's spare processing power to help science and do things such as fight AIDS, cure cancer, treat Alzhimer's disease, create antibiotics and more. You don't have to pay anything and you're computer won't overheat or ware down. I strongly suggest you download Folding@Home.

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18 Oct 2010, 2:39 pm

I'm not donating CPU cycles so a company can make money on it.

I'll download it and run it if they guarantee that they wont patent an expensive drug from it, and instead release the research free so the entire humanity can benefit from it.

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18 Oct 2010, 4:37 pm

Ichinin wrote:

They don't make money off it. Any valuable information that they obtain through this project will be analyzed and not patented. Because it is free information, anyone can take it and patent a drug, but that doesn't happen often at all. No one will take information your computer provides and patent a drug from it.

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18 Oct 2010, 8:59 pm

Stonecold wrote:

Ichinin wrote:

Not to mention the fact that even if it is patented you are still helping to research a cure for various crippling and deadly diseases, including cancer, which killed 7.9 million people in 2007. (and yes, before I get flamed for it, I understand that protein folding only affects some types of cancer)

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18 Oct 2010, 9:21 pm

I'm already running einstein@home and seti@home. I might have run folding at some time in the past, but my interest, and thus my cpu, lies elsewhere.

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21 Oct 2010, 11:46 am

how much processing power dose it use?

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21 Oct 2010, 12:03 pm

I fold for the MaximumPC team
I have

1 PS3 folder "when up and going"
1 GPU Folder w/ Nvidia Cuda
5 CPUs

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21 Oct 2010, 12:21 pm

Titangeek wrote:

how much processing power dose it use?

As much as it can get.

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21 Oct 2010, 8:08 pm

kra17 wrote:

Titangeek wrote:

how much processing power dose it use?

As much as it can get.

You do have some control. You can set it so that it's disabled when you are actively using the computer.

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21 Oct 2010, 10:57 pm

I used to have it. After using it for a while, though, it began to crash on my computer, displaying a C++ runtime error. I don't know what went on, so I uninstalled it. I'm using a netbook computer right now, which doesn't have a lot of processing power anyway. I might try it later, but for now I'm not going to bother figuring it out all over again because I'm very busy.

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21 Oct 2010, 11:13 pm

I don't get why anyone would want to tax their computer for no benefit to them.

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22 Oct 2010, 7:59 am

Pistonhead wrote:

I don't get why anyone would want to tax their computer for no benefit to them.

Q1: Do you want a computer?
Q2: Did you pay for the development of computers?

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