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If you hadn't noticed, Stanford University needs your help to fold proteins. By downloading the client on their homepage, you let it access all avaliable (you won't notice it, not even when playing games.) processorpower to work through different workunits, very much similar to what Seti@Home does. And thus, joining the struggle against Alzheimers, Parkinsons Decease, etc - in a very small way.

Read it all at Stanfords homepage, http://folding.stanford.edu

Clients are avaliable on most platforms.

And by the way, why not start a sciforums.com-team?

- corewarp (team lindh-inn, #12855)

GL! :)
 
I had to uninstall the application.

it was too intrusive and it was eating up about 98% of my computing power.

The SETI @ home ap is of a much better design.
 
I been running it for a year now, Im in the top 10% and love it! I have had no problems with it effecting my performace. Set it to "lowest possible usage"
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Originally posted by Eflex tha Vybe Scientist
I had to uninstall the application.

it was too intrusive and it was eating up about 98% of my computing power.

The SETI @ home ap is of a much better design.
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It's supposed to use as much computer-power avaliable, dont worry. :) Btw, tell us if you find some aliens.
 
I have never noticed any perforamce loss? Did you set it to use lowest priority?
 
I myselfed loved the old, now closed golem program. Evolving automatons. You can still download it for fun but it dosnt get any support.

Im game to start a sciforums team..
 
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Re: Re: Folding@Home

Originally posted by Fraggle Rocker
"Stanford University needs your help to fold proteins."

OK, let's see if I've got this right...

The state of the art in network security is so abysmal that government offices, brokerages and military systems get hacked routinely. Every time you subscribe to a service like e-Bay or online banking they download "cookies" to your computer -- little programs that do whatever the people who wrote them want, such as looking over your financial records and eavesdropping on your e-mail -- programs that operate without any visibility or control at your end unless you block them and then you can't get onto 3/4 of the world's websites.

The distinction between "data" and "instructions," an impenetrable wall that Univac implemented on mainframes in 1970, is completely nonexistent in PC architecture. You can receive a word processed document with virus code embedded IN THE TEXT! (Don't get me started on how PC software developers deliberately ignore all the lessons we mainframe jockeys learned the hard way! That's why PCs have problems that mainframes solved 25 hears ago, such as deadlocking.)

Our computers are at the mercy of just about everybody who wants to invade them whenever we're online.

And there are people who deliberately INVITE college students to take over their PCs during the night, when they are NOT online and not even AWAKE? College students who believe in ALIENS??????

Please, somebody tell me this is just a funny skit off TechTV. People don't really do this, do they?
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Fraggle... first of all I'm behind a firewall;

Second: a cookie is not a progarm its just a note that is added to a data base so that people could see what webpages you look at. search for "cookies" on your computer and you will see that it is nothing but a txt. file with the ip addresses of just about everypage you have ever looked at! If your like me you will notice that none of them lead to porn ;)

3rd: Yes people do in fact do this. folding@home is a legit and helps cure ALL disease by improving are understanding of biology. If you leave you computer on most of the time its a great screen saver and saves wasted cpu time. Your paranoia is sad maybe you should liten up on the :m:
 
Yes I have to agree these things are not nearly as good as they could have been. We could have been to Mars and had colonies on the moon by now if only we had not stopped paying for it. We could have AI too but companies found it much more productive financially to make computers the way they are today! So hopefully you will have figure what I have and realized: that people always go the easiest way usually the one that makes them rich as soon as possible. What gave me this epiphany many years younger then you? Read “Selfish Genetic” by Richard Dawkins.

And no do not wareships it like “Scientology” this is a legitimate book about genetics.
 
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I like being cynical :) I feel like I’m honest about being who I am: an animal that in most cases does not think it is! There is a big difference between modern computers and the analog neural networks projects of the 60’s. First of all they stopped funding for those projects because they did nothing but cool tricks and nothing financially productive. All modern computers are digital and totally non-rewireable, except for maybe programmable gate arrays. Analog neural networks are much MUCH better suited for learning, Object recognition, Voice recognition then their digital counterparts. Little improvement have been made in the field of analog neural network computers today and most cases of AI is the result of brut force software in a high speed digital computer.
 
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Originally posted by Fraggle Rocker
My paranoia is well earned after 35 years in IT. As they say, once you've seen how sausage is made you lose your appetite for it. Or: If our ancestors built houses the way we build software, civilization would have been destroyed by woodpeckers. It really pisses me off that the PC hotshots dismiss all of our work and have to reinvent absolutely everything. By now we should be well on the way to autonomic computing and zero-defect software. Instead we're grappling with OS crashes triggered by application program failures, malicious instructions camouflaged as data, and other problems that we solved 25-30 years ago. PC software developers are so excited about AI and data warehouses that they can't see that the infrastructure they're piling all these layers on top of is made of toothpicks and chewing gum.
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Sounds to me like you need to try GNU/Linux. Start here ;)
 
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