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Old 05-10-2005, 09:55 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

This is the official discussion thread for the Computer Forum folding team.

What is F@H?

"Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases"

It's basically a distributed effort to unfold the secrets behind proteins and the way that they fold which sometimes causes mutations and serious disease like cancer etc. to occur. By joining in, you can help humanity and have fun competing with your friends at the same time.



To find out how Folding@Home works, how you can get involved and help, and to view the team stats and information, check out this thread:


Folding@Home: About


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Old 05-10-2005, 11:48 AM   #2 (permalink)
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there is also the more useless http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ nice to look at but pointless.
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yeah, i thought about that one, but i decided to list things that may be of more immediate applicable use. Not that i'm discrediting the work of the guys of seti.
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I do F@H, it's definetly not spamming. It's for a good cause

Is there a team here?
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That is a bloody great idea!!

I have just set up a team for the computer forum for folding@home
http://folding.stanford.edu/

The good thing there is a ranking system in place within the team, so we can see who is doing most to help out a good cause. Common guys all join in!!

the team number is: 44358
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Old 05-10-2005, 03:16 PM   #6 (permalink)
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The good thing there is a ranking system in place within the team, so we can see who is doing most to help out a good cause. Common guys all join in!!

the team number is: 44358
Not many people by the looks of things!
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Old 05-10-2005, 03:25 PM   #7 (permalink)
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team data will take a while to update, as it is only updated once you have completed a packet of data / unit of work, which may take a few days. Bearing in mind i only just set it up it will take a while for numbers and user to appear on their. Have you signed up. Well done.

If a lot of people sign up (as i hope) i will ask preator if i can post updates of the scores every week or so. So it's prob best if you sign up to folding@home with your computerforum username.

Good on ya!
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Is the F@H team still active here? My last team has just died, 0 folders. Looking to join another if I can.
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The thing that worrys me most about these number crunching programs is, i dont have ideal full load temps, isnt this just like running a burn in program all the time?
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Sure is. I've been running F@H for team 11108 (Maximum PC...sorry) since June 2004 and I definitely needed to fix up my cooling to keep temps down. I had to cut a side panel hole and do the direct ducting route.
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