Folding@Zelaron (Cure Cancer with your computer!)
 

If you haven't heard of it before, Folding@home is basically a Stanford-developed distributed computing project which performs computationally intense simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics.

Folding@home is the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world, and it is used to give scientists a better understanding of why proteins sometimes do not fold correctly, which occasionally leads to various consequences and diseases such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

All you need to do to run Folding@home on your computer (either on your CPU or your GPU) or on your PS3 is to download the client from http://folding.stanford.edu.

Note that your computer (or PS3) runs Folding@home on low priority by default. Thus, Folding@home will only run on full speed while you are not using your computer. When you are using your computer, Folding@home's calculation speed (or more specifically, its amount of calculations per second) will slow down to not bog down your other applications and games. In other words, running Folding@home will not (notably) affect your computer's performance.

What are you waiting for? Join the Zelaron folding team now and start folding!


Zelaron Team ID (Input this into your Folding@home client): 143204

Zelaron Team Statistics: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...teamnum=143204

Client Download: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download

In case you didn't feel like reading my previous post, or even if you did, this is a pretty good video introduction to the Folding@home project:




In theory, if we get a good team ranking, it should also work as advertisement for Zelaron.

I have contributed. This is a very interesting program.

dang computer to old

Nice! Yes, it is.



Actually, somewhat "old" computers run Folding@home just fine. Here's some information from the official FAQ on the Folding@home website:

i tryed and i cant even connect

Ha, I have 9850 Quad Core and a 9950 Quad Core running at my house plus a PS3. Do you really think you can out power that?

Yes .

Talk is cheap. Look who's in the lead!

I've been trying to connect. I seem to be having some issues though. By the way, it's not just talk. We seriously have a butt-load of powerful crap at my house. Not including my crappy laptop, which is the one I was trying to connect with first.

My computers free time is used up by BOINC :(

And BOINC = ?

Yay, my computer is 50/2500 checkpoints completed. Only 98% to go!

--------EDITS------EDITS---------EDITS-------------
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1.8GHz (Cores = 2) CPU - My Laptop is at - Finished 4 - 400/5000 :: Running an AMD Athalon 64 X2

? CPU - PS3 at - Finished 3 - ? :: Running GPU

2.5GHz (Cores = 4) CPU - Brother Michael_sama - Finished 47 - |Too Many Running Simultaneously| :: Running an AMD Phenom X4

I have it running on 2 computers now. :D

Folding@home is single-handedly more powerful than the entire BOINC network.

i think i downloaded it correctly - can anyone verify that im actually running this thing?

I downloaded it but seemed to have some sort of problem communicating with their network to recieve work. I gave up due to lack of care.

I might give it a give it a go with this computer when my new one is built.

I'm trying to run it as I leave my computer on 24/7, but it keeps saying "can't connect and no work to be done". Did I miss something?

Although, I just noticed that my wireless internet client is suddenly taking 300mb of RAM in the background. Dunno if that's related.

Bump! We're in 28,665th place out of 141,248. We need to get into the top 100 for it to significantly help Zelaron's popularity, so keep curing diseases with your computers and PS3's!

Haha, we need 29 million to crack the top 100. We have about 5500.

Bump: Start folding people!

I tried it and got lost somewhere so gave up.

Well, I guess I started folding. Hope it doesn't take up too much RAM, don't want my laptop running slowly as a result.

Can't do it at Uni - can't get my PS3 past the block, which is a bitch, and any heavy usage of intarwebs gets one blocked (I got a warning for uploading a gig of videos to Facebook!).

So far, Zelaron's folding team consists of:

Chruser
GoodLookingGuy
Spector
Xenn
And yours truly

We need more peoples!

I am trying to get my comp to do it but can't find out if it is working. I don't think I am even connecting.

I'll start running the program again in a week or so; I'm having computer-related problems at the moment.

I seem to not be able to connect. All it does is say "(Auto-start)"

Sorry, I would like to join but my comp won't connect and it is making my comp lag like there is no get out. I couldn't even force quit D2.

That's strange. Is CPU or memory usage causing your computer to lag? The CPU usage should be adjusted automatically to prevent problems. I'm running Folding@home on a Windows XP system at the moment, and only 60 MB of RAM has been assigned to the program.

I'm setting up an old 2.4 GHz Ubuntu system to run Folding@home as well. Join the Zelaron team, guys!

My second Folding@home client is up. Soon I'll be in the lead yet again.

Zelaron folding statistics:

Active CPUs within 50 days: 3
Grand Score: 8721
Work Unit Count: 44
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate): 25767 of 145102

Rank (within team)	User	Score	Work Units
1	Goodlookinguy	5107	28
2	Xenn	2657	11
3	Zelaron	910	4
4	Wallow	47	1

Dang I suck. I guess I need to fold some more. Yet the experiments never end and I usually turn off my computer before they're finished.

Wow, I didn't know about that bbcode.


Sorry, but I doubt that. I'll get my PS3, and other three computers started.

I am still trying to get one started :p

Dangit, each simulation takes like 36 hours! I had my computer turned on for almost all of Sunday, and it progressed to only a little bit above 1/3 of the simulation. I wish there was a save button so I could restart a simulation I stopped a previous day.

It should resume on its own once you start it up the next time.

Anyway, it's time for another update!


Zelaron folding statistics:

Active CPUs within 50 days: 4
Grand Score: 9983
Work Unit Count: 49
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate): 24762 of 145102

Rank (within team)	User	Score	Work Units
1	Goodlookinguy	5961	31
2	Xenn	2657	11
3	Zelaron	1318	6
4	Wallow	47	1

GLG has completed an additional 3 work units while I have completed another 2 since the last update. No-one else on the Zelaron team has contributed with work units since then. :(

We have also gained 1005 positions on the ranking ladder.


Perhaps this will be updated automatically:

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/awards/t...204&t=wus&bg=4

It's statistically impossible, given our current (or even projected) rate of progress, to get to a high rank.

Linear progression does not apply in this case.