Folding@Home: Helping to find cures for disease

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Balram — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:30:03 GMT

The information above really isn't answering my question, because I still don't know how to gain points so can someone help me?

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MoneyGuyBK — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:11:11 GMT

Have you noticed that there are now more than 100,000 Teams Folding@Home ???

To think there were 80,000 in July when Team_XPS started...

That's 80,000 Teams in 7 Years (Since year 2000 Inception of F@H )
And there have been 20,000 more created in the last 6 months!!!

If we say 20,000 Teams in 200 Days.... woohoo.... That's an average increase of 100 Teams Daily

OR, 4 Teams Hourly .... or A New Team created in every 15 Minutes just about {Was that correct English BTW}

Nice Job Every one.... may the force be with us in our quest to help humanity !!!

I think this is exciting!

Peace

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CHSIsupplier — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:22:08 GMT

That's great RichardatDell! Thanks for your support. That's exactly what this blog post was about....shedding some light on this project. I really think that if we could just make more people aware of it, there would be many more contributors. Thanks again!

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Miles Ward — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:05:43 GMT

Wow! My grade school friend, Chris Snow, was one of the instrumental graduate students who worked on the folding@home project! I always love seeing his project in the news! Way to go Dell and crew for contributing to this amazingly valuable research!

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MoneyGuyBK — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:18:13 GMT

Thanx Richard;

This has been a great 5 days since this blog was originally posted. Team_XPS has gained more members in this period than ever before. All this can be attributed to the steady and persistent characterisitic(s) of current members, now assisted by Dell/DCF and with the help of people like yourself spreading the word, Team_XPS will soon be gaining even more members.

One must note that to date (Since July '07 Inception of the team) we have not been taken over by any other teams. Personally I attribute that to the quality of our members. Team_XPS is currently running with 58 of its signing members (out of 81) still folding. That is a 71.6% Success ratio, when compared to teams that are running at 20 to 30 percent.

Richard, I hope that you too soon will join Team_XPS (#80856)

Peace

RichardatDELL said:

What a great idea, initiative and blog post. Thanks for your leadership (and great use of Dell computers)....I have reposted to my Facebook profile hoping that might gain some additional traction for this post and the cause.

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RichardatDELL — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:54:17 GMT

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Aivas47a — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:11:01 GMT

Lionel, thanks for publicizing this good cause. We've already gained new members as a result.

A couple of comments on some of the earlier posts:

While the points awarded by Stanford don't count for any prizes or anything like that, they do reflect the amount of work done as measured against a "reference" computer. In other words, the points help measure how much work has been contributed to the project, and also help users maximize those contributions by maximizing points. (And of course, the points spur competition.)
The Cell processor in the PS3 has been a great resource for Folding at Home as shown in the point totals. But, the PS3 projects are not identical to the PC CPU projects (or to the PC GPU projects). Each different kind of project is useful and provides information that the other projects don't.

Read more about it all here: http://folding.stanford.edu/

Fold On!

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cbigfoot — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:21:36 GMT

BioGeek said:

"I noticed when I installed the software on the PS3 that the donator is listed as PS3. So unsuprisingly, one of the top donators listed there is...PS3. Use both, I have the XPS going doing its folding and then the PS3 running doing some as well. Now if only this XBOX360 could do something."

BIO i know you would like to see that on the 360 so would i BUT the thing is the first thing that needs to be done on the 360 is fix the cooling issue other wise every one running the 360 with F@H would Expierince the Dreaded Redring of death.

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Lionel_Menchaca — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:58:17 GMT

Awesome. In that case, I should complete my first one overnight. And if they ever make an Xbox 360 version of the app...

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CHSIsupplier — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:49:18 GMT

Lionel- It depends on what processor and client you're running. On a dual core, you can plan on somewhere around 24 hours, and with a quad core somewhere around 16 hours. These are rough estimates of course. It seems like all of the clients (with the exception of the PS3, which seems to run faster) take about the same amount of time to complete. The real difference in teh clients is the amount of points rewarded. The SMP console client is by far the biggest points earner.