Folding@Home, why aren't you in yet?

[leadman584]

With some of the fastest computers on earth, you folks are the most capable of saving [H]umanity. The projects coming out of Stanford, get
more exciting by the moment.

I have teammates, that have seen concrete results from this project. If you've never lost a relative to disease, count yourself very fortunate.
Parkinson's disease, and the associated complications, just took the Pope from us.

Please take the time to visit http://folding.stanford.edu/ . Read the research, Read the forums, and look at the teams available. If you're an aussie, by all means, join you're nation's team. They need the help they can get, my team is closing on them fast.

My begging for teammates thread at Divx.com will most definitely
be more informative than this thread. Since several of my teammate were able to contribute they're support immediately. Please check out the following thread:

http://forums.divx.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/511101651/m/823103442

If my post adds a single CPU to this cause, it will be a charished adddition.

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[Sirber]

I was, but I stopped due to limited CPU ressources.

[leadman584]

Thank you for trying. Many are afraid to even give it a chance. My poor old AMD 700 can't fold either, so I gave it to my brother, and built an AMD A64 3400+, that can fold. Any machine capable of running an Xvid/Divx encode, in under a day, is capable of giving a hand in this project. I have several encoding boxes, and they fold well too.

Many people are content to fold via the Google Toolbar. I prefer having teammates that I can interact with. All teams are worthy, and our competitions, help add more systems to the cause. For the very best systems on Earth, Stanford is attempting to run Schraedinger equations, for higher precision. 2 of my machines get a steady diet of these monsters.

Every computer can aid in the process. Team 33, [H]ardOCP, would appreciate new teammates. Any team is worth joining. Virtually every tech related site, has a team. Support the cause if you possibly can. The cause is humanity. If you are capable of reading this post, that means you.

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[napalm]

what concrete results have your teammates seen exactly?

[leadman584]

Check the last couple of pages of the thread in my first post. Phunky_Monkey has some interesting info. Have you read some of the information presented at http://folding.stanford.edu/ ? It's worth taking a look. At present over 160,000 computers, worldwide are running these simulations. This information, and the resulting research , is available to any facility on earth.

If for whatever reason, you are simply unable to contribute, read some of the material. Watch the video presentation Dr. Pande makes, hopefully you are really up on you're molecular biology, I'm not, it makes more sense. Tell a friend that can contribute.

The vast majority of the people on this planet, have never heard of this
project, nor the Genome project that preceeded it. Virtually everyone has heard of stem cell research, and fall on either side of the debate.

The fact that one of the largest superclusters on earth, powered by our computers, coordinated by the supercomputer at Stanford, is attempted to eliminate, decades of trial and error research. This is the kind of news, people should know about. The folks at Stanford are fully capable of verifying postive results, from simulations, on site.

Far too often, people hear of this project from a consoling Dr., after losing a loved one, and seek out one of the teams, to join in the fight.

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[diogo6]

I joined TEam Firefox and I'm trying to get more ppl to do the same, keep on with it leadman

[leadman584]

Thank You for joining the fight. As with the thread started at Divx, I'm just trying to make folks aware, that there is a meaningful way to help science.

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[leadman584]

Why is it so very hard to believe, that the combined power of the world's PC's, can find out why, so many diseases happen? No one is born, predisposed to contract parkinson's, or alzheimer's disease. I realize it is in vogue, to inject fetal stem cells into the afflicted. Our president spoke out on this issue, saying this random research is of value, as long as they control access.

The second largest supercluster on this planet, is devoted to finding out why we die.

The biggest,Google, created by Stanford grads, is a very significant contributor to this cause.

Surely, with all the tech savvy members here at Doom9, you belong to at least a few tech sites. Most have a folding@home team. Join one. Joe Public can barely porn surf, without trashing an OS. You must be above this level, or you would take days to encode a video. I have 3 different computers running encodes right now, plus this surfing rig. They also fold for the cause. My team, [H]ardOCP, team#33, would appreciate every new join, but if you can fold, please do so, regardless of team affiliation.

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[leadman584]

Are overclockers the only folks with confidence in they're systems? This is the premiere encoding site on Earth. Hundreds, smarter than myself drop by here, every day. I can't be the only with a clean operating environment. The dino's didn't have the chance, to save they're own species from disaster, but we do. Join the fight.

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[Shinigami-Sama]

it;s interesting cause I just clicked and read your last post as soon as cruel angel's thesis started to play
and I get a 404 from that link and I'm to lazy to figure out the correct url
other wise I;d help a bit

[leadman584]

My mistake, links corrected. Thank you for pointing out my error. Hate to think I caused, even one possible folder, to ignore the project, because I posted incorrect link.

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[Shinigami-Sama]

well
I have it set a screen saver now

[Morbo]

I fold for TEAM62 or Futuremark.........look up Hypno_Toad...:cool:

[Shinigami-Sama]

ok I;ve tried differant setting and such but when it turns on it makes my system to unstable
possible cause of hte D.O.T overclocking so depending on how many times it locks my system up or not I may have ot get rid of it :(

[leadman584]

We all have our own priorities, and if gaming is far too important, please dump this crap. It's only running for the sake of mankind. My AMD XP 3000+ lappy, just loves to fold. I do video encodes on my other 3 rigs, and the folding gracefully backs off, till it's done.

This is, quite honestly, a way for power rigs to prove themselves, and serve [H]umanity at the same time. All overclockers run Folding@Home, just to prove how bad they really are. Are you [H]ard enough to join team 33?

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[Shinigami-Sama]

I"m not a gamer so yeah
D.O.T is a dynamic overclocking thing built into teh chip so right now it's set to 15% increase at 100% usage so if I turn down folding to about 80% of cpu it doesn't lock up I think I have to up my voltages at bit more before I'll put it back up to 100%

[Morbo]

Nothing personal,but ones who can...do...alot.

And anymore mention of your team,...Ill consider as spam...

Thank you for calling......;)

Cheers!

[Shinigami-Sama]

Originally posted by Morbo
Nothing personal,but ones who can...do...alot.

And anymore mention of your team,...Ill consider as spam...

Thank you for calling......;)

Cheers!
I'll agree I atleast ahve got and have it running althouhg it;s buggy on my system somehow...
and not everyone has 4 computers at home this is hte only one I have
and hte way you keep tring to push it on us reminds me a certain organized groups that I happen to dispise so if you keep pushing I might stop
I personaly consider human like simalar to virus on this earth so be happy I'm/we're even "helping" by doing this

[leadman584]

My apologies. I had no intent to spam or push anyone to do anything they are uncomfortable with. This project is very system intensive, and not for everyone. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the people on this planet should not participate. As desperately as spare cycles are needed, the terrible truth is that most folks, can barely use they're computers to retrieve E-Mail.

I make a decent profit on the side, handling customer service problems. I see virii, trojans, and loggers, of varying degrees of sophistication every day. I'm still learning. My training box (which has no internet access, or folding) has 4 different rootkits deployed simultaneously. I can identify them, but extraction sequence is tricky.

If folding causes you're box any problems, for heavens sake remove it. The rig I just built is very flaky with Folding running. I know it's not a lack of power, but the software environment I've created. Having windowsXP X64 on drive H, and the MBR on C, can't be helping at all. 3 RAID arrays in the same box, can't be a good idea either, but I'm gonna try anyways.

I come to you, because I know you're systems can run 100% CPU usage, around the clock. The question, really is, what does you're computer do when you aren't encoding?

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[kypec]

I know this thread has been abandoned almost 2 years ago but
I'd like to know whether there is still such scepticism about F@H project in Doom9 community.
I'm folding on a Pentium III 730 MHz since 2005 without any problems with OS stability or so.
Sure it is quite an obsolete piece of hardware, not mentioning it is my work's desktop :mad:
Anyway, I really think it would be great if there was some Doom9 team because I love this forum :)
Anyone else willing to join such team? :thanks:

[HyperHacker]

So would the old P233 box under my bed be of any use at all? :p

[foxyshadis]

It'd probably do more good for the planet to leave it off and save the electricity, unless you need a noise heater. >.>

[blutach]

Over at digital digest, we have a dedicated team who have been doing this for months and are quite up the rankings (current team rank 1,313 with 290,000 points).

If there is no doom9 team, you might consider joining us there.

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=69457

Regards

[kypec]

Thank you blutach for pointing me to the right team :thanks:
I'm already in :cool:

[Soulhunter]

We should start a new team called United Vidiots or so... ^^


Bye

[G_M_C]

I've been folding for DPC for 4 or so years now, no problems whatsoever.

BUT (always a but isn't there); When doing some encoding, or something with video in general even; You'll have to switch the clients off.

[zilog jones]

I fold too, in a team for some other forums (my stats (http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=200422)). I only use one core for it though ;)

[Adub]

Overclockers.com: Team 32
Merlin7777
ranked 3rd in the world!
Stats link:
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=193779

Represent!

[markrb]

Ok blutach I joined your team over there. I will give it a try and see.
What is your team name there? I didn't see you in the top 25 list.

Mark

[blutach]

Mark - I am a slacker and sadly the opposite of the mighty Merlin7777. :)

But we at Digital Digest do have some dedicated folders and welcome you and kypec (and anyone else) to the team there.

Regards

[jm1647]

@kypec and markrb - I just wanna say Thanks for joining the DVF F@H team !!!!

@Merlin7777 congrats with 3rd in the world!!! I'll betcha half the fun was getting there,

[SirCanealot]

I installed this on my work desktop. It's a 3ghz duel core, so it shouldn't be too bad. Too lazy to join a team though.

Heh, I always run these things madly for a week or three, but I always get bored of managing them in the end. It's kind of depressing that these projects will just go on for years and years...

[kypec]

Too lazy to join a team though.

:confused: All you need to do is click "Configure..." in your systray icon and type in the team number (51205 is DVF team for instance).


Heh, I always run these things madly for a week or three, but I always get bored of managing them in the end.

:confused: What management do you mean exactly? There's really nothing to manage after you set up your account/team/network connections once. Just let it run and enjoy the statistics as you wish.

It's kind of depressing that these projects will just go on for years and years...
Well, it wouldn't be very fun if all scientific challenges could be solved in few hours after all. What would the millions of participants do once all the proteins were successfully folded during one weekend? :(

[foxyshadis]

Some fascinating and sobering information on how much use adding your encoding box to the F@H network will be: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000823.html and an older article at: http://techreport.com/etc/2006q4/gpu-folding/index.x?pg=1

[check]

yep, it certainly makes me feel that all my efforts keeping my box at 100% uptime over the past years to fold have been a little wasted :). On the other hand, it's a VERY good reason to buy a PS3 :D

[unmei]

If the GPUs/PS3s can't process all pack types (as comments on 1st article seem to indicate), then those packs they can process should really be given to them considering how much more efficient they seem, and the CPUs should only process those packs not suitable for stream processors.