Would anyone explain this to me? i downloaded and apparantly its doiong some bacteria thing, which i dont really understand. What is this for?
Would anyone explain this to me? i downloaded and apparantly its doiong some bacteria thing, which i dont really understand. What is this for?
There is a fairly suitable explanation on their front page, is there not?
http://folding.stanford.edu/
yeah i saw that but, i forgot to edit my post.. but isn't this kind of pointless waste of your CPU?Originally Posted by kermit
also why do they need this crazy computing power, are they like.. idk.. like making a nuke, i mean a nuke's got to be easier than this.. i mean this is crazy.. what is there compute to so much..
Yes, because having your high price machine sitting there doing nothing a lot of the time isn't a waste...
Last edited by kermit; 07-20-2005 at 08:56 PM.
hrm... I guess you didn't actually read it:The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many cancers and cancer-related syndromes.
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Bottom line, it's a great thing and one day the work your computer did could contribute to the cure of a deadly disease. Why not help out?
We just broke in to the top 600
Um...according to the page when I checked this morning, we're still at 604.We just broke in to the top 600Code:Grand Score 310677 Work Unit Count 2300 Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 604 of 39167
If I did your homework for you, then you might pass your class without learning how to write a program like this. Then you might graduate and get your degree without learning how to write a program like this. You might become a professional programmer without knowing how to write a program like this. Someday you might work on a project with me without knowing how to write a program like this. Then I would have to do you serious bodily harm. - Jack Klein
If "curing cancer" can be considered a waste, then yes.
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i guess that makes some sence.. ill get up my 2.0Ghz up and running and this one also
Look at the detailed stats link in jv's sig. We were 599 as of about 8:30 AM this morning.
That's odd. So 5 teams blew past us?
If I did your homework for you, then you might pass your class without learning how to write a program like this. Then you might graduate and get your degree without learning how to write a program like this. You might become a professional programmer without knowing how to write a program like this. Someday you might work on a project with me without knowing how to write a program like this. Then I would have to do you serious bodily harm. - Jack Klein
Dunno. I've been waiting to make the top 600 post
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We're 605 now
We're about to overshoot Hotmail, and close to carnegie mellon, buahahah
Look at the detailed stats. I think they're updated more often. We're at 599... have been since early today.
