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Big Dog Joined: 18 Oct 2000 Posts: 4410

Damn... up from 25 to 49 active processors in less than a week! If we can stay around (or above) the fifty range, we'll tear through the rankings in no time.

PS - Just_N_Engineer, did you get the PM I sent you a few days back?

Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 7:39 pm Post subject:

Hopefully in the next couple of weeks, I can get 2 more systems online and folding (both ADM XPs ~1700+).

BTW - anybody in the US who would be willing to receive a dual AMD board an on-ship it to me? (stupid company only ships to US addresses!)

Mutt Joined: 20 Sep 2001 Posts: 102 Location: Ohio, USA

Hey, I will have a P4 2.4 gig up and running tonight. woo hoo!!

Kenny: "You guys got to do something. There's this guy in here his name's Nasty Nate whose's after my cocktail fruit. And everyone here likes fresh fish. And then the Squirrel Master came out of left field and told me I'm his bitch. And help."

posts until my next doggie

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 7:35 am Post subject:

What exactly is Folding@Home??

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Big Dog Joined: 18 Oct 2000 Posts: 4410

http://folding.stanford.edu ---->

What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously acheived. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.