The programs could include viruses, could damage your computer, or could conduct illegal activity such as send spam or bootleg music, and you would be liable for damages.
This is not a virus based on the following observations:
It does not interfere with your normal computing. Normally, computer viruses are not dormant.
I have successfully uninstalled this program on one machine.
There is no trickery behind this program, just the advancement of health science.
It bears the Stanford University name and Vijay S. Pande, dept. of Chemistry and Structural Biology, take credit for the operation.
AllanJ, thank you for your post, maybe more than one person had the same question.
Hey Scott, looks like you managed to get one WU through to the servers. And a few others joining the team - well done. Now it looks like I am about to lose my 3rd place to a bunch of hotel PC's - Good one SteveinSTL. Better go find some more PC's to get it running on. My old PII 300MHz is going to take 4 weeks to complete its first WU! Maybe I can get it to run on my Palm IIIx? or my cell phone?
Keep em coming. The team is now in the top 2.5% of teams. We now have 4 individuals with a higher score than the team was at when I fist started tracking the results in a spreadsheet at the end of October.
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I don't know what kind of WU they gave me for my first one, but it took 4 days to process, I woke up this morning and it had done a full WU in 9 hours, and is almost done with another.
I don't know what kind of WU they gave me for my first one, but it took 4 days to process, I woke up this morning and it had done a full WU in 9 hours, and is almost done with another.
From memory, your first WU had a score of 241, which is a fairly hefty size work unit, you you have since posted a further 2 for a total of 66 points, so the second and third averaged 33 points each which are quite small WU's. Recewntly I have been getting some 316 and even 600 score WU's and they can take a while.
The time really depends on the processing power of the PC. I have an IBM T41 (Pentium-M 1.4GHz) that processes a 316 score WU in about 35-40 hours. My IBM T21 (PIII 800MHz) takes about 5 days for the same size WU, and my PII 300MHz is still crunching its first WU and is 34% through it after 2 weeks!
The team's average score per WU is currently 95. My average is 138.4. I don't know how they decide who gets what size WU.
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Programs: AA Plat 2MM,F9 Summit, UA Exec, HH Diamond
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want to see our results graphed?? Way way cool!
This needs no explanation - it speaks for itself. Now checking out this site fully, and will probably post some good summaries later. Guys, we're really rolling!
Most of your computer’s computing power goes unused. For example, surfing the net, writing essays, and listening to mp3’s uses between 5 – 30% of your computer’s resources. The rest simply goes wasted. By simply downloading the Folding@home program and letting it run, you can help save lives. The program doesn’t affect your computer’s performance at all. It unobtrusively uses your computers wasted power to study protein misfolding.
The Folding@home project is dedicated to help study the causes of Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease. By doing this, the project hopes that its contribution to understanding the underlying causes of these horrible diseases will help in the search to find a cure or vaccine. In fact, they are already helping. Folding@home is the only distributed computing project that has produced significant results and published them in a major scientific journal such as Nature.
Running the program doesn’t cost you anything. It turns off when you turn off your computer and it only uses the CPU cycles that you are not using. So, when you run a game that needs 100% of your computer’s resources, you’ll have 100% of your computer’s resources.
Folding@home is a non-profit project put out by researchers at Stanford University. All information produced by the project is made available to others free of charge.
Go to: folding.stanford.edu to dowload the client or for more information.
The goal of Folding@home is to study protein misfolding. Proteins need to fold properly before they can accomplish their intended function. Unfortunately, protein misfolding is the underlying cause of diseases like Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's. Very little is known about how proteins fold. The study of protein folding is among the most challenging yet most important fields in biology. Understanding how proteins fold can help researchers create vaccines and cures for some of the most horrible diseases afflicting people today.
The study of protein misfolding is extremely computer intensive. It takes some of the most powerful computers to solve some of the simplest questions about protein misfolding. Building ever more powerful computers can be prohibitively costly, many times running into hundreds of millions of dollars. It would take the fastest PC 30 years to simulate the folding of one protein. Luckily, Folding@home has come up with a novel solution to this problem. By breaking the problem in to thousands of tiny pieces and sending them to the approximately 100,000 volunteer computers around the world, the project can solve the same problem in a couple months. The volunteer computers analyze the tiny problems (called Work Units or WUs) simultaneously, sending them back over the internet to the Folding@home scientists.
If you would like to help, go to http://folding.stanford.edu Download the small client and let it run. The only time you’ll realize it’s on your computer is when the screensaver pops up. Then, you’ll see the protein that your computer is folding.
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and the movie version to "why"
Sorry for the multiple posts, but I keep finding great things.
This is extremely well done, and if you don't want to use your pc or laptop to help now... well.... I'll just reserve comment. We're team 39124; Flyertalkers
And I have a 600 pointer about to finish (finally, those big ones take some crunching!), so watch for another jump in the rankings after it has posted .
__________________ NM aka Nelly Mobbs
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SteveinSTL, in which hotels has it been easier for you to install the Program? I tried a Radisson the other day by where I live and they only have WiFi access.
And I have a 600 pointer about to finish (finally, those big ones take some crunching!), so watch for another jump in the rankings after it has posted .
How do you tell in advance how many points the WU will give?
How do you tell in advance how many points the WU will give?
Look at the name of the WU being crunched. My current WU is called p1310....
Then go to the Project Summary page at http://vspx27.stanford.edu/psummary.html and look for your project name. It will show how many atoms and how many points the WU is worth. I have noticed that the number of frames is not always what is shown by the F@H application, but it does seem to match the number of frames shown by the logStats tool mentioned in a previous post.
So for my current p1310 WU, I can expect 316 points. And knowing that I can conclude that it won't be completing/posting today!
__________________ NM aka Nelly Mobbs
Go directly to WHY, do not pass F, do not collect a J amenity kit.
- Good one SteveinSTL. Better go find some more PC's to get it running on. My old PII 300MHz is going to take 4 weeks to complete its first WU! Maybe I can get it to run on my Palm IIIx? or my cell phone?
want to see our results graphed?? Way way cool!
best technical explanation yet as to "why?"
and the movie version to "why"
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