Spoofee Folding Team?

Would you be interested?

  • Yes, I'd be interested in joining a Spoofee Folding Team

    Votes: 4 33.3%

  • No, I woudln't be interested in joining a Spoofee Folding Team

    Votes: 8 66.7%
  • Total voters
    12
jl514

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Folding@Home is a program developed to use idle CPUs to calculate the folding of proteins. The information is only gathered when you're system is idle, and on. Thousands of computers around the world are already Folding, and the information that can be attained is significantly valuable in the curing of disease.

I just found out about Folding@Home, and it seems to be a good cause, and I'm going to start folding on my CPU soon. "Teams" have been created as groups of people who pool their results and get points and stats for how much their computers have done as a whole. It's a nice little community thing. You can't "win" anything, but we may cure parkinsons or something.

there is a short flash movie explaining the finer details located here:

http://www.teamshort-media.com/videos/foldflash2.html

Basically what I'm asking is how many people would be interested in starting a Spoofee Community Folding Team?
 
What the heck is all this? What do you download some sort of trojan that monitors you PC, umm I don't think so.

This seems like a bunch of BS, and does not belong here. If this was someting so special I am sure I would have heard about it someplace other than this forum. :28: :bs:
 
I've heard and seen this program before, as I lived on the 'Nerd' floor at my college (Computer Science House @ Rochester Institute of Technology.) It basically uses your idle CPU to do random calculations on how a protein 'folds' itself over in real life (but... umm... electronically). Then the stats for the types of folds gets uploaded. You can form teams and try and 'fold' the most. It's a neat thing, and in theory may help cure some disease somewhere, but IMHO is more for nerd-bragging rights ('My team folds more proteins than your team!') than anything else. Again, just my opinion. It is a real program/researching thingy though.
 
i would join, its kinda meaningful. its not bs at all!

have you guys heard of United Devices? its basically the same idea. i did try UD, but for some reasons I couldn't get it installed.

http://www.ud.com/solutions/
 
well it make you processor at peak all the time , which would cut down it life, the average processor is used 20% most of the time so be carefull
 
well, nothing lasts forever.... and i think your cpu won't last for 2 years if you're planning to upgrade it.
 
This is an old concept... it was first used to process packets of data looking for extra-terrestrial life. The project was called SETI@home. Being the CS nerd that I am, I did d/l that when it first came out. But I uninstalled it almost right away, because it did slow the system a little when coming off screensaver. Plus, I didn't like my CPU to be running laps all the time.
 
Search for Extra Terrestrial Life @ Home is still up and running lol
 
i dont suggest it for what its worth , many cpus have fried
 
dehawk666 said:
i dont suggest it for what its worth , many cpus have fried
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Uhmmm...I don't think CPUs will fried due to the Folding@Home.

Also, if folks don't know, the Google web toobar you install has an option to enable this feature for idle CPU computing for good causes like Folding@Home (a non-profit research project at Stanford University). It's called Google Compute.

See http://toolbar.google.com/dc/

Additional info: http://folding.stanford.edu/
 
Pbtrain google may call it what they wan but the bottem line is your cpu is working at full potential 24/7 or whenever it is on . That brings down thelife and causes frequent crashes. I agree it is for a great cause i mean the other day someone found the worlds largest known prime no using one of these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Geee i wonder how we ever lived withouth knowing that

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rank description digits who year comment
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1 2^24036583-1 7235733 G7 2004 Mersenne 41?

Now isint that worth your cpu life dying out slowly , beings a tear to my eye that no
 
The truth of it is, I've had the same computer for two years exactly now. I'd say over it's lifetime it's been on 24/7 98% of the time i've had it. My CPU is still working.. very well i might add.

This january I'm building a new computer. So my current computer lasted the time i needed it to, being on for nearly two years straight.

On top of that, this current computer i'm talking about is a laptop. laptops are known to run under higher stress, and temperatures (it idles around 60C.. a temperature most desktops dont touch under full load).. and everything about the system runs fine.

Unless you plan to keep your computer for 6 years.. i don't think it's a big problem. I have very rarely heard of peoples cpus "frying" just from a program. When cpus fry its usually as a result of a faulty product, or someone who overclocks poorly.


I didn't mean to start an argument up here.. i just thought maybe people would be interested. I am doing it either way (F@H that is).. and I will probably team up with the other forums i frequent, but i figured i'd check here first.
 
jl514 said:
Search for Extra Terrestrial Life @ Home is still up and running lol
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LOL -- My thoughts exactly. IF running a program while your computer is idle can do something so great for mankind, why would we try to be searching for ET or why do we care about the worlds largest prime number? Like was said above, this is more "computer nerd" stuff where bragging rights come to play.
 
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