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[El_Machinae]

I would guess that your school computers are already on a DC project, but I admire your enthusiasm, and am utterly curious as to what DC project they are running, if they refuse you.

I wish there was an easy way to get corporations to run it on their servers.

 

[Abaddon]

bump... new people joining?

 

[IglooDame]

My score is going to be dropping through this week as my office is moving to a new building.

 

[ironduck]

I still haven't figured out why my computer crashes more or less randomly. It has been the case with all my windoze boxes, like some sort of curse.

 

[Sahkuhnder]

Are you running Windows XP with an ATI 1900 series video card?

Folding@Home just released a new Beta test that does folding on GPUs. Right now it's only a limited test but will soon expand to other video cards and the new Sony PS3 as well.

 

[schmiddi]

C'mon people. What's going on? We lost a place.

 

[warmonger]

Sorry to report that I have stopped folding.

I found that I didn't have the control over the programme that I wanted. At times the icon in the sys tray would disappear and the only way to get it back was to reboot.

A few programmes I run didn't like the folding programme in the background and it was too difficult to turn on and off. Also whilst it would happily give up the CPU time it would not easily give up the RAM.

So no more folding for me - sorry to bail out on you guys.

 

[ironduck]

Thanks for chipping in warmonger.

I think we need a new thread to get interest among the newcomers.. apparently the only way to do that is to get 1000 posts, so I guess it's time to spam it up!

 

[Sophie 378]

I have used the Comments and Suggestions function on my university's website to plead for a distributed-computing project to run on the hundreds of campus computers. I gave Seti@home as an example, and a link to Folding@Stanford. Hopefully we'll see University of Birmingham climbing up the charts in a month or so!

I got an automated email along the lines of "thank you for your comment, your opinions are important to us" - yeah right. No response yet from an actual person.

Ironduck - shall I do some more science spam? One of my modules is all about protein structure, and I could waffle about that quite happily.

 

[ironduck]

Science spam is some of the best spam in existence! It also has the added bonus of not being deleted by the mods!

 

[Sophie 378]

Right, then, I shall proceed to pontificate about proteins for the purposes of promoting our project!

(Waaaay too much alliteration there ... )
I'll do one per week or so - depends on how much detail they go into and how much I can be bothered to do. Only had two lectures for that module yet.

 

[scienide09]

*waves hand from the far corner*
Hi all. Hope you don't mind that i'm still lurking around here.

Perhaps someone can tell me, are any of you crunching for the World Community Grid and the folding or cancer projects there?

I'm still happily running BOINC, and now that the WCG and Boinc talk to one another, I have joined the FightAids@Home project. I went looking for a CivFanatics team, but came up empty handed. Did I miss you? (I noticed that some of the crew at Apolyton are up and running a team).

 

[MjM]

I also have stopped folding.
My computer is getting older and I already have enough spyware as it is, and I decided to get rid of things like last.fm and folding that are constantly running.

 

[El_Machinae]

*waves hand from the far corner*
Hi all. Hope you don't mind that i'm still lurking around here.

Perhaps someone can tell me, are any of you crunching for the World Community Grid and the folding or cancer projects there?

I'm still happily running BOINC, and now that the WCG and Boinc talk to one another, I have joined the FightAids@Home project. I went looking for a CivFanatics team, but came up empty handed. Did I miss you? (I noticed that some of the crew at Apolyton are up and running a team).

Howdy!
I've heard complaints about BOINC, that it crashes systems. You don't think so? What I like about BOINC is the ability to modify what you're working on.

 

[ironduck]

I don't think there are other CFC distributed computing teams. We only have about 40 active participants in this one, so spreading it out to more teams might make it lose its attractiveness to be part of a team. We have also stopped progressing in rank I think, definitely need some fresh blood!

 

[El_Machinae]

Did people see the video of the inside of a cell?
I hope that someday, a program like folding@home will allow us to model such an event for visual display (much like we currently see the protein fold, very slowly, on our display)

 

[ironduck]

What video?

 

[El_Machinae]

Why, I'm glad you asked! I'll link it in a minute!

Edit: http://aimediaserver.com/studiodaily/videoplayer/?src=harvard/harvard.swf&width=640&height=520

In my browser, I had to scroll down a bit to see the play button.

 

[ironduck]

Rocking! What's the big blue blob being walked across the strand?

 

[Furiey]

I'm still folding, albeit more slowly, plus I've got a pretty large work unit at the moment. My PC has taken a dislike to Civ 4 which has caused me lots of problems and slowed my folding.

PS: I love your avatar ironduck.