Alex Hirsbrunner
Lifetime Supporter
Hi Folks,
Most of you are probably wondering what is "Folding @ Home" and what does it have to do with GT40s.com?
Folding @ Home is a distributed computing project being run by Stanford University that is attempting to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases like Alzheimer’s, cancer, Parkinson’s etc.
The basic idea is that you run a free Folding @ Home application client on your PC, Mac, Linux box or Playstation 3. which only uses compute cycles when your processor is idle. Your computer fetches work units, executes them and sends the results back to Stanford University for analysis. I’ve got 5 computers that participate and I thought that since most GT40s.com members are computer literate, it might be cool to have a GT40s.com “folding at home” team (all of the participants of a team are counted together as a unit, see below). This way, we can see just how much impact we are having on progress towards curing some of these diseases. As far as I know we would be the only car marque based team.
I’m probably doing a poor job of explaining this so here is a much better explanation:
Folding@Home Distributed Computing
I talked to Ron about this and he agreed that this seems like an easy and useful community service that our virtual community of members could participate in and perhaps do ourselves some good in the long run.
So, I have set up a GT40s.com team (number 63884) that we could use if you like the idea.
Our current stats are here (I just changed my computers from team 0, the default, to GT40s.com [63884] so they won't start showing up until they finish their current work units):
Folding@Home GT40s.com
And here is a list of the top 100 teams right now:
Folding@Home Top 100
Feel free to ask any questions you may have and I'll do my best to help answer them.
"Folding@Home is the most powerful distributed computing resource on the planet, and for the calculations run (parallel independent molecular dynamics trajectories), the most powerful supercomputer of any type (distributed or otherwise)."
I would not recommend running this on your work laptops or any other mission critical servers, but that old PC in your garage that is plugged in and not really being used except on weekends would be a great candidate.
Best Regards,
Al
Most of you are probably wondering what is "Folding @ Home" and what does it have to do with GT40s.com?
Folding @ Home is a distributed computing project being run by Stanford University that is attempting to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases like Alzheimer’s, cancer, Parkinson’s etc.
The basic idea is that you run a free Folding @ Home application client on your PC, Mac, Linux box or Playstation 3. which only uses compute cycles when your processor is idle. Your computer fetches work units, executes them and sends the results back to Stanford University for analysis. I’ve got 5 computers that participate and I thought that since most GT40s.com members are computer literate, it might be cool to have a GT40s.com “folding at home” team (all of the participants of a team are counted together as a unit, see below). This way, we can see just how much impact we are having on progress towards curing some of these diseases. As far as I know we would be the only car marque based team.
I’m probably doing a poor job of explaining this so here is a much better explanation:
Folding@Home Distributed Computing
I talked to Ron about this and he agreed that this seems like an easy and useful community service that our virtual community of members could participate in and perhaps do ourselves some good in the long run.
So, I have set up a GT40s.com team (number 63884) that we could use if you like the idea.
Our current stats are here (I just changed my computers from team 0, the default, to GT40s.com [63884] so they won't start showing up until they finish their current work units):
Folding@Home GT40s.com
And here is a list of the top 100 teams right now:
Folding@Home Top 100
Feel free to ask any questions you may have and I'll do my best to help answer them.
"Folding@Home is the most powerful distributed computing resource on the planet, and for the calculations run (parallel independent molecular dynamics trajectories), the most powerful supercomputer of any type (distributed or otherwise)."
I would not recommend running this on your work laptops or any other mission critical servers, but that old PC in your garage that is plugged in and not really being used except on weekends would be a great candidate.
Best Regards,
Al
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