folding@home

marks_linux · #1 13th June 2004, 09:37 PM

Is there already (or would someone be interested in) setting up a folding@home team for fedora forum?

ilja · #2 13th June 2004, 10:11 PM

wtf? give a link plz

marks_linux · #3 13th June 2004, 10:26 PM

more info at http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/

Mark

marks_linux · #4 13th June 2004, 10:30 PM

I would just go ahead and create the group but out of politeness et al

I think the owner of this forum should have the chance to be the team owner first, rather than me whos very new to the forum!
Mark

ilja · #5 13th June 2004, 10:31 PM

I think tux and ug won't mind, if you create a team.

jtang613 · #6 14th June 2004, 04:33 AM

I would join... 'Been Folding for a while now.

Much more productive than Seti@Home... After all, the greatest evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence is the fact that they have never tried to contact us.

marks_linux · #7 14th June 2004, 05:02 AM

Will set up and post the team number. (the team registration server is down ATM).

Yep in my humble opinion much better use of CPU than searching for the little green men (though I did do SETI for a while)

Mark

jtang613 · #8 27th June 2004, 04:48 AM

New team FedoraFolders with number 37988 has been founded by FedoraFolders.

Enter that number in your client.cfg file.

Sorry admins, but I took the liberty of creating a Fedora Folding team. I'd be happy to hand over the administrative info to a qualified Forum admin. I'll try to post a quick howto for setting up Folding@Home on Fedora.

jt

***ewdi*** · #9 27th June 2004, 05:26 AM

we dont mind, yeah, it's a good idea actually

Ug · #10 27th June 2004, 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jtang613

Sorry admins, but I took the liberty of creating a Fedora Folding team.

No problem, it does seem like a good cause although my CPU has been occupied with Seti@Home as of late.

I finished my Biology A Level yesterday with an Exam on "Microbes and Disease", so protein's are close to my heart.

I had been wondering the other day exactly how they get their tertiary and quaternary structures exactly so - despite the peptide and hydrogen bonds.

The other thing which i find interesting about proteins is how drastically their structure can be changed just by one substitution of an amino acid, somewhere in the polypeptide sequence.

(I'm done now)

marks_linux · #11 27th June 2004, 07:44 PM

Our first few work unitss have been returned:

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/m...&teamnum=37988

p.s. only mananged top spot cos I was half way through a work unit when I switched teams.

Mark

jtang613 · #12 28th June 2004, 01:47 AM

Yeah, I think you probably have the processing advantage

I'm running:
AMD AthlonXP 2200+
512Mb DDR
Asus A7V266-e Mobo
120Gb raid-0 array
GF4 Ti4200 128Mb AGP

And a few extra HW goodies - TV Tuner, DVD, DVD+-RW, 3Com 10/100, SB Live, 60Gb removable HD. Also running FC2 with kernel 2.6.6 until the new FastTrak raid driver is released by Promise Technologies. Then I can wipe my system and finally get it set up properly... no more Linux software raid shennanigans.

jtang613 · #13 28th June 2004, 04:56 AM

Just a note for anyone following this thread -- I also posted a brief howto for setting up Folding@Home in the howto forum.

marks_linux · #14 29th June 2004, 07:42 PM

Thats some work unit you got last time round!!

jtang613 · #15 30th June 2004, 08:06 AM

Quite a monster! Took days instead of hours.