9 ghz of pentium power or 9 ghz of amd power????

Humbly doing my bit for the research effort
Only have one rig, but it's folding it's little heart out

Ummmmmmmmm , yeah ........ like whats folding @home ????? is that like some kind of extreme laundry sport or something ?????????

I mean you all get mad excited over this stuff...like whats the big deal!? I'm playin ever since i found out about it my rig here at college is folding 24/7 with constant monitoring. I'm comin up the ranks!!!!! My computers at home will be folding this summer and any of my friends computers that I can get my hands on, the little program will show up in services...magically.

Make it so...

i fold. and fold.... and fold... isnt there a limit where you can only fold somthing 8 times?

Whats This folding stuff ???








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15Ghz folding power on tap for team 596(T2) , another 0pty 170 on the way

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Quote: Originally Posted by disturbed_pyro 9 ghz of pentium power or 9 ghz of amd power????

If my memory serves me well, I think its about an even 4.5 GHz of Intel and 4.5 GHz of AMD power. A fairly nice even split, but the AMD's chew WU like no other, and those two computer get used more often than the Intels.

Either way, it's very good for Team 596.

Nice right now i have about 7GHz of amd power and 2.5 GHZ of pentium power chuggin away i picked up some friends to Fold.... Disturbed_pyro's F@H army is growing... slowly but surely....

Yes but I fold for the Other Team ... Gruntville

Quote: Originally Posted by malatory Yes but I fold for the Other Team ... Gruntville

GruntVille who?

I think I have a couple of rigs folding here and there. Always trying to get more borgs!

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yes i do fold for 596... hey Thrasher, wanna fold for me?

Quote: Originally Posted by beachbum86 yes i do fold for 596... hey Thrasher, wanna fold for me?

Yeah.........The name was THRASHER2 right
Will Do!!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by GrandpaNoob72 Folding, folding, folding, dual instances folding... Folding, folding, folding, for MOM!!!

That's so cool .But there are 5 mil. people in the U.S.A. right now with Hepatitis-C. With no way to get help. All I can do is fold and pray...Keep praying, praying, praying.
Folding, folding, folding.
PPPPPPPP-R

Quote: Originally Posted by THRASHER2 GruntVille who?

yeah yeah..

I'm folding, slowly.

Edit: of course for PCA

Wow, let me be the first to boldly say "No, I don't fold and I don't think I ever will". Years ago, the last time I posted a response like I am now, I got everyone and their dog jumping all over me, I felt like the next coming of the Antichrist. People called me a conspiracy theorist. People called me a lot worse. So be it. But before you mindlessly hump my leg, try to think about the following points objectively, even if for only a few moments.

1) How many people who devote their processing power actually, really UNDERSTAND what Folding@Home is? I figure many people use it as a benchmarking tool, others as a status symbol or bragging rights ("Oh gee, look, I/we/our team just took 1593rd spot!"), but I would guesstimate the minority of people folding actually know what their computers are doing.

2) Can someone please show me something quantifiable and concrete regarding the results of this folding? How many years have people been folding for Stanford? Have there been any cures of cancer or other horrible diseases? What direct evidence is there of any progress? What, exactly, has been accomplished in all this time, other than a few papers published in obscure medical journals? Oh, if you're gonna quote Stanford's site and spew some gibberish like that below, please spare me. I have a B.Sc. in Zoology, I have a background in the Sciences, genetics, biology, etc., and I've tried to be objective as any scientist should...but I don't understand it, and I doubt 99% of folders do, either:

These projects focus on a new form of protein structure for Folding@Home. The collagen structure is a "superhelix" composed of three protein strands wound about a single central axis. Collagen makes up approximately 25% of the proteins in the human body and is the predominant molecular component in tendons, teeth and bone. From a medical standpoint, this protein structure is important due to its link to osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a bone disease affecting approximately 1 in 10,000 people around the world. The deadline and points/WU are 18 days and 57 points respectively.

Wha--?? Mmm okay. Whatever. You're all helping to do some kind of vague research on a rare disease that affects .01% of us. >>News Flash<< Cancer affects nearly 50% of us in our lifetime, and this number is increasing.

3) It seems almost plausible to me (cue the "conspiracist" cat-calls now) that Stanford U. has devised a clever way to get everyone elses' computers to help do their work for them...at no extra cost to them. It's sure a helluva lot cheaper than applying for grants for a new server farm. Hump my leg if you like, but that's basically the black & white of it, ain't it?

4) Some of you have dedicated several PCs--indeed, server farms of your own to "fight the good cause"--some are using their friends' and work computers behind-the-scenes to fold away, too...think about all this energy that is being used. Instead of having one computer running temporarily, some households have a half-dozen or more, running 24/7, all using up energy and Internet bandwidth. Energy that could be put to better use---downloading games & pr0n, of course!

Anyway, let me say a few things. If this folding is actually doing something beneficial, something concrete and measurably useful, then I'm very glad all of you are contributing. If I was convinced of this, I would be contributing too. Personally, I am not a folding hater, I'm just ambivalent and skeptical about the whole thing. Until someone can clarify for me in no uncertain terms exactly what good this folding is doing for us, other than just being a vehicle for a clever research facility to get a lot of free computing power, I will conserve my electricity.

Lastly, don't bother flaming me unless you put some actual hard facts where your flames are.

Cheers, and end of my rant of the day!

Folding 24/7 on 1 computer (if i had more, they'd be folding too).