Folding@home

[Brains-Lans]

Hi,

Igloo and myself are doing folding@home ( http://folding.stanford.edu/ )

Is there anyone else in MPUK doing this new medical distributed computing since UD died?

If so is there a MPUK team?

B.

[Wizzo]

I have a group of machines on the BOINC apps. http://boinc.berkeley.edu Lots of various science projects on there from SETI to global climate change modelling.

[Brains-Lans]

just fyi, the multiplay team is here:

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=94269

[-Angelus-]

I've joined this as I think it's more than a worthy cause...

[MONK]

On WCG and SIMAP currently been looking at joining the folding@home, the GPU effort and the fact they have the PS3 does seem to be doing wonders for there results.

Personally I think folding has probably the best news / updates system (bar maybe galaxyzoo) which is nice as some projects give very few updates or reasons to do them. Some of the maths ones are terrible for giving even the slightest reason there project might be useful!

[ez64]

brilliant joining now got a few servers for it anyway.

edit: im running seti@home how do I join the main BONIC group?

[Zenith]

Thanks for reminding me about this. I've just put my file server and PS3 on the case so we'll see how it works out.

[Elkeeed]

I used to do distributed.net before seti and some of these others came out. My main reluctance to do them nowadays though is that it does put your power bill up by noticable amount.

[rick_2k]

On the ps3 i set it to shut down after 1 unit is complete and i do this once a day. On the pc i just have it running while im using it and its on.

I used to run 24/7 but i started to wonder why i should spend so much just to run these things and the impact im having on using all this energy is surely not good.

Btw i run for the custom pc team.. 8-9th in the world charts :P

[Neon]

How does folding@home work on the PS3? I was dubious about it as I didn't want to leave my PS3 on all the time, which I assumed you needed to do.

[LiQuiD_PyTHoN]

if u install folding@home it will kick in while your not using your playstation (must be turned on)and also comes up as a screen saver. I think it also kicks in when your watching dvds as well but not sure.

[ntrance]

It would be good if you could ask people at the Iseries to install folding at home, I'm sure most pc's are left on all day/night and the extra 2000 cpus would help nicely.

I started folding this week on 2 machines, left on day and night so I might aswell do some useful stuff with them.

I fold for custompc also, I wonder if they would run an article about the mass gathering of folders at such a unique event? Worth a try wizzo.