Ultimate Guide To Folding@home

Just a few questions;

1) Is there any risk to my P.C me running this? I normally leave it on overnight downloading is this roughly equivalent or does it use alot more CPU power to fold? MY P.C's not going to melt halfway through the night or die under stress?

2) If I wish to remove the program I can just remove it without any bits remaining and running after I have done so?

3) What is the information gleamed going to be used for? Is it just to be used by Standford University or the scientific community as a whole? Is there a chance that this insight into proteins allow people to perform nastier tasks (Stuff like cloning - I know this is DNA modification but proteins and amino acids often tie in pretty closely - or creation of harmful biological weapons)?

4) Is this actually worthwhile or will the whole thing be discredited in a years time when the scientists find there actually doing something a bit wrong and all this folding info is useless?

5) Are the pics on the user interface the actual pics of the protein being folded or are they just random images?
 
and just to prove how much this helps look at the team stats page...

i used to be in 25th or 26th place and look at me now..... ;)

im geting like 4WUs done in 24hrz sometimes even 5WUs :)
 
Originally posted by nigel123@3 April 2004 - 07:29
Lamsey....look out, Linx will soon be overtaking you... :) You will have to add another processor I am afraid :lol:
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He he, I've already got another processor waiting to go into service as soon as I've got my water cooling sorted out (and a little more space). :lol:
 
Originally posted by Livy+7 February 2004 - 01:37-->QUOTE (Livy @ 7 February 2004 - 01:37)
I'll be 4th within the next day or two :P :D [/b]
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88 points in it

are you going for 3rd? [/b][/quote]
Well, yourself and IC have three CPUs; I know yours are slightly better than mine, and I don't know about IC but he seems to do well, so I'll be hard pressed to catch up with you. I'll overtake Clocker at some point though :devil:
 
thank you guyz the mods at this forum are GREAT! ;)

i guess i better start telling you about other stuff about FAH :D

btw my first sticky i feel like im going to cry :D

once again thank you :D
 
Yeah, I believe so. I can see it go up to 65% (when the task manager first opens) but FAH only uses 50% of it.

Either way, even if it is only 50% it is still a lot faster then my old one:)

TD
 
This thread needs to be revived.

20,000 points!

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At last, project 638 has been given it's proper score.

I've done about a dozen of these over the last few weeks, but it was only given a score of 128. Yet p639 which takes exactly the same amount of time was correctly recieving a score of 239.

I reckon I've lost about 1500 points in the last month, although I don't suppose I'm the only one so it probably has not affected my position much.
 
Originally posted by 4th gen@22 March 2004 - 16:17
I had to format my comp the other day so I lost that big juicy WU :(
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bummer. i dont think ive lost any WU so far anyway.

ive also just added another machine, a amd k6-2 500, with 256mb ram. running a little each day. running the genome@home, which is now just folding WU without a deadline, since its a slow machine, and not on alot.
 
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