Folding@Home: How many people here do this? (56k)

It is when you donate your computer processing power to a network of computers called 'distributed computing.'

People from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world.

Why does Stanford need this much power?

They need it to simulate protein folding for research. Protein mis-folding is the cause of cancer and other related diseases.

Every single computer added to the network bings us one step closer to a cure for cancer.

Here is their homepage.

I think ALL schools should have a client on all of their computers. At my school, many computers are left on or on standby doing nothing. They could all be doing something great for humanity.

I think Microsoft and Apple should integrate this into their next operating system. Hey, Sony did it with the PS3! What can't they do it too?

Look at all these computers in schools! They could be folding right now! :x

The client can also run in the background when it is being used by a student. The client is designed to use the processing power that isn't being used by the user.

So it doesn't have to be on 24/7.

What are your thoughts on this?

I understand that there is a 'Join the Gamespot Folding Team!' thread in PC Hardware discussion, but this is more about why

I do it, the bashers will come in and say running all of those computers will just waste electricity. X360PS3AMD05

I think more people should get involved in this because it's for a good cause. :)

It is when you donate your computer processing power to a network of computers called 'distributed computing.'

People from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world.

Why does Stanford need this much power?

They need it to simulate protein folding for research. Protein mis-folding is the cause of cancer and other related diseases.

Every single computer added to the network bings us one step closer to a cure for cancer.

Here is their homepage.

I think ALL schools should have a client on all of their computers. At my school, many computers are left on or on standby doing nothing. They could all be doing something great for humanity.

I think Microsoft and Apple should integrate this into their next operating system. Hey, Sony did it with the PS3! What can't they do it too?

Look at all these computers in schools! They could be folding right now! :x

What are your thoughts on this?

I understand that there is a 'Join the Gamespot Folding Team!' thread in PC Hardware discussion, but this is more about why

people should get involved and people's thoughts on the whole thing.

Rikusaki

My thought is that if they made a crease in the middle of that proten it would help a lot more in the folding of it then tossing 1s and 0s at it.

My thought is that if they made a crease in the middle of that proten it would help a lot more in the folding of it then tossing 1s and 0s at it.

stripes_green

Are you serious? This is for research! :x

[QUOTE="stripes_green"]

My thought is that if they made a crease in the middle of that proten it would help a lot more in the folding of it then tossing 1s and 0s at it.

Rikusaki

Are you serious? This is for research! :x

Chill bro. I'm never serious. For serioius. I think.

[QUOTE="Rikusaki"][QUOTE="stripes_green"]

My thought is that if they made a crease in the middle of that proten it would help a lot more in the folding of it then tossing 1s and 0s at it.

stripes_green

Are you serious? This is for research! :x

Chill bro. I'm never serious. For serioius. I think.

How exactly does it work?DrSponge

[QUOTE="DrSponge"]How exactly does it work?markop2003

Nope. It's a nice scam they've got going on though.guynamedbilly

[QUOTE="DrSponge"]How exactly does it work?markop2003

[QUOTE="markop2003"][QUOTE="DrSponge"]How exactly does it work?mysterylobster

Why do you have to be such a killjoy? It's for research for cancer. It's better to have people atleast try then to blow it off as a scam (which you obviously have). So what if you pay an extra few dollars a month, it's for a good cause.

[QUOTE="mysterylobster"][QUOTE="markop2003"] Basically instead of having one computer with 1000 processors there's loads of processors spread throughout the world connected via the internet. Supercomputing programs like this are already broken down into many parts when they're made, just with this type of processing they're more spread out. ragek1ll589

Why do you have to be such a killjoy? It's for research for cancer. It's better to have people atleast try then to blow it off as a scam (which you obviously have). So what if you pay an extra few dollars a month, it's for a good cause.

[QUOTE="mysterylobster"][QUOTE="markop2003"] Basically instead of having one computer with 1000 processors there's loads of processors spread throughout the world connected via the internet. Supercomputing programs like this are already broken down into many parts when they're made, just with this type of processing they're more spread out. ragek1ll589

Why do you have to be such a killjoy? It's for research for cancer. It's better to have people atleast try then to blow it off as a scam (which you obviously have). So what if you pay an extra few dollars a month, it's for a good cause.

He'd rather want you to pay taxes to the church.

[QUOTE="mysterylobster"]*text*ragek1ll589

Hey! I'm the killjoy here!

And I'm folding at home right now! I just finished my socks and now I'm folding my shirts.

Used to do it on my PS3...before the F@H icon suddenly disappeared one day :cry:II_Seraphim_II

[QUOTE="II_Seraphim_II"]Used to do it on my PS3...before the F@H icon suddenly disappeared one day :cry:bsman00

[QUOTE="guynamedbilly"]Nope. It's a nice scam they've got going on though.Dante2710

Yes, it may do good work, but the doctors making their high income salaries are convincing normal people to foot the bill for their experiments. No doubt, the research is useful, but you can guarantee that if anything significant were discovered using this tech, there would be several scientists right there to sign up for their book deals.