A call to fold
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please take a moment to post why you fold (to your profile message board or your own homepage!) and add a link to it in your sig. Thank you. If you want to do me a personal favor, call it "fold with us!"
We say "get a life" to each other, disappointed or jokingly. What we forget, though, is that this is possibly the most destructive advice you can give to a geek.
boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighist -- modified at 3:20 Thursday 15th December, 2005Done.
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Team Code Project[^] at Folding@Home[^] needs your help. Folding@Home uses your spare CPU cycles to simulate protein folding. From the home page: You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download[^] and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals. Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved. You can read the FAQ[^]. I've been running the software for a while, and have never seen any degredation in performance or unusual resource consumption. Please consider it.
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Team Code Project[^] at Folding@Home[^] needs your help. Folding@Home uses your spare CPU cycles to simulate protein folding. From the home page: You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download[^] and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals. Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved. You can read the FAQ[^]. I've been running the software for a while, and have never seen any degredation in performance or unusual resource consumption. Please consider it.
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delete this;Soon as I get a broadband connection again... I voted you a 5 by the way. The tigress is here :-D
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You just let it run all the time (it shows up as a tray application). The 'core' basically consumes CPU cycles that normally would have gone to the null process. The screen saver doesn't actually participate in the calculation; it's just for display purposes.
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delete this;I thought the SS would be better because the app would actually shut down when not in ss mode. I can't have anything at all running on my system but work related stuff when I'm working (that's why the ss would have been perfect) I'll just start and stop it manually.
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please take a moment to post why you fold (to your profile message board or your own homepage!) and add a link to it in your sig. Thank you. If you want to do me a personal favor, call it "fold with us!"
We say "get a life" to each other, disappointed or jokingly. What we forget, though, is that this is possibly the most destructive advice you can give to a geek.
boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighist -- modified at 3:20 Thursday 15th December, 2005 -
I thought it was call, raise, or fold. ;P (I suspect I'll get flamed for making a joke out of a noble cause). I would contribute, expect I use exclusively laptops, and it's annoying to have the fans fire up when the background task takes over and rails the CPU. Marc VS2005 Tips & Tricks -- contributions welcome!
Marc, I use strictly my laptop as well, I have my desktop buried in storage somewhere. There's an option in preferences for laptop users, you can specify how much cpu you want to use, and also turn off completely if you're on battery power, I just signed up. Thanks, John
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Folding is for sheep. Find a distributed project that matches your intrests and contribute cycles to it instead.
dan neely wrote:
Folding is for sheep
Huh?
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Soon as I get a broadband connection again... I voted you a 5 by the way. The tigress is here :-D
Thanks, Elaine :rose:.
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dan neely wrote:
Folding is for sheep
Huh?
Software Zen:
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dan neely wrote: Folding is for sheep Huh?
Everyone and thier kid sister are folding now, just like 5 years ago they were running seti. Be an individual and pick a different project. Currently I'm running einstien@home and crunching ligo data looking for gravitational radiation.
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
dan neely wrote: Folding is for sheep Huh?
Everyone and thier kid sister are folding now, just like 5 years ago they were running seti. Be an individual and pick a different project. Currently I'm running einstien@home and crunching ligo data looking for gravitational radiation.
I did choose Folding@Home over other projects.
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