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Well i don't know what you guys think about this. But i was sitting here thinking about how many bloody processors we have between us in this  community, and how, between us that is a phenominal power beyond Virgina tech or anything... Most of you folk will know about the Seti@home project, where your computer is helping search space for radio signals etc in the hunt for other life etc...

Well its all very fine and dandy, but personally i think there are better things this power could be spent on... And FOLD (http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/) is one of them. The work that is being down goes towards research in fighting Alzheimer's, Cystic Fibrosis, BSE, and many cancers among others.

If there is enough interest from you folk, then (With Mauti's Permission of course) id like to set up the *DAMN Community as a team of FOLD'ers to help this project along. all you need to do is downlaod the screensaver, set up the cofig in your terminal, or run the little app when your not using your comp etc... However it needs a good group of us to do this, and the more people contribute - however small or big, the better. (and of course theres that bit of competition ;) )

Anway... have a look etc before you shoot ;)
Thanks

BFG

yes, why not? i have some old macs at home nobody needs... LC, 7600,... :D

but we could really start a *DAMN Community team. I've thought of a distributed.net team before, but folding@home is as good as any.

Elandrion

What do I download?

Its up to you crypt...

1. Screensaver (normal screen saver except the program runs in the background)
2. you can run it from your terminal
3. you can run the pretty little application complete with GUI

I think he means, "where can I get the download?"

oops lol. sorry. here (http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/download.html)

Downloaded, and im starting it up as i post.

Holy damn, looks like its going to take my computer a looooong time to churn through this thing.

Whats the avg. time a packet/protein takes for you BFG?  (ANd what kind of computer are you running it on)

Wow, one hour and .50% later...sweeeeet...

Well. due to the nature of protins, how much your running the computer it can take days or weeks... . The vairables of how much u run the app, what comp u are running, and the pick of th WU you have will vary hugly.

Im currently working on a lil old protien called p521_BBA5_pf !! - to give you an idea its been running for aprox 90mins - and the computer hasn't been being used (i was getting some breakfast and being lazy ;) )

and progress wise... well we're 2.00% done :) OOh Make that 3.00% :D

(this is on a Duel 1Ghz G4)

GO for it lone-wolf :D

I already Have a Folding team going... its been going for about 6 months now... Even though i have it named the BTs team.. you guys can feel free to join it the team # is 34948.. just go to the pref settings or the setup for the screen saver and add the # to the team area... If the comunity wants.. I can change it too the DAMN Mac Gaming Team

Sounds good Harvey - i was going to do one for our clan etc but then it just seemed that *DAMN has such a larger influence and name etc it would be good to do somthing 'on behalf' of all of us as it were :) And its much better to pool everyone onto one group :D (also means we got a head start with all your guys work :) )

Guess i'll hop onto the team then!

Rgr.. If i get enough other DAMN members.. I'll switch over the name. Me and eight are realy the only ones that have done anything on it (staict might have done some).. I use the Screen saver sence my g5 and powerbook are on most of the time. The app ver of it seame to reset the projct you are working on everytime you restart the app.. The screen saver works best for me!

Ohh.. and BTW.. if anyone hates the noise that some G5's make (the one that comes from the powersupply sometimes) this app seems to get rid of it.

Well I went ahead and changed it.. here is the info on what name so you can look up the stats
TEAM NUMBER: 34948
TEAM NAME: '*DAMN Mac Gaming Team'

I just joined. Don't really get what I do though.

Just to let you know, the G5's power noises can be turned off by downloading the CHUD tools and un-checking "Nap" in the hardware panel.

..zzzzz....beeep....zzzz....beep got on my nerves for 2 seconds, so yeah, if you haven't done that the G5 gets a lot sexier.

FOLDING project eh? Sounds interesting....

I've joined too.  Me and my .50% workload compleated.  YES! Go me!

Wow, almost four hours later...im now at 1.75%

yeeeehaw!

Hey, so i set the *DAMN team id in the preferences window.  But it still shows only four people as being in the team.  (2 DJ Disturbed's, eight and static)  Does the creator need to approve people into the team maybe?

4 hours later, I'm at 33%, christ, this is even slower than compressing video.

I may leave a Dual 1.42 up doing this while I'm on vacation. I figure it's a better use for it than sitting around collecting dust.

It will show that you joined once you finish your first folding project.. it automaticaly adds you then... So wait till the first project is done.. check a few hrs after that (or maube a day b/c i dont know how long it takes for it to update on the site) and your SN will be on there.. Make sure you set your SN in the prefs area of the program (or SS) too. Mine is DJDisturbed.. mny powerbook uses the same SN too.. so the DJDisturbed.Powerbook one is actualy inactive.. but its on there o show that some work was done under that name... Dont worrie.. your SN will come up once you have compleated the first "fold"

Alrighty, 10.5% done.  Blah.  My computer must hate me right now, its been running at 100% for about 2 days.  15" 1ghz laptop.  

I should be done with this fold in about 8 or 9 days, hopefully.

I've been running for about 6 hours and have got to 11.25% using about 95% of my dual 2 G5....so yea some seem to move slower than others.

Yep... Im afraid it makes rendering Video as quick as ... as quick as launching .mail ;) !

I have had a few folds take a few hrs and other take a week for the 1.8 dual G5 to do...... the powerbook (500mhz) finishes one every 3day-10 days.. but then its running the screen saver most of the time b/c all i have been using it for is NF. I have finished close to 200 folds sence around the end of Feb.

im in

can i run this on OS 9?

Nope

well my comp sits around all day doing nothing...i'm in

Awh this is awsome :) ty guys :D

Yes.. thanks guys.. I have hed this team going for a while under diff names.. I'm glad that We can get some peeps together to do this... For those still wonding what folding does.... well lets just say that whatever your comp is working on might help cure cancer or other illnesses one day.

This is an excellent initiative guys.  As off last night I started folding.
Would be cool to find a new project after this one finishes.

Great to see this community come together like that.

Well.. the folding project is an ongoing thing....... everytime you fold something (even if its the same thing) they find out new data to use..... when you finish one project it will start a new one.. I have folder close to 200 projects already

Here is an updaate on how the Folding team in doing

I have tried the App ver of Folding and The SS ver of it.. the SS ver of it works the best from what i can tell.... I'm not sure about the command line (terminal) ver of it. I hve my computer set up to not go to sleep (sence i run a kdx server on it) nd the SS runs when ever im not on it... I do put the monitor to sleep after a set amount of time.. but the SS still runs w/ the monitor asleep

Downloaded it yesterday, my comp will work on it every night from now on, mb even during the day aswell soon.

15% in a bit less then 6hrs  ;D with the GUI app. Using between 96 and 99% of my processor with only the regular OS apps running.

Great! Now lets all start a project to take over the world!
Any suggestions Brain? ;)

jk, I hope a lot more ppl will join to help this project.

I got a whopper of a protein, score 128.0 for 1 fold. Go G5!

Well the old Powerbook is chugging away at it. Its really good to see so many people taking this up, hopfully there will be many many more! :D

harv can you view your progress etc when using the Screensaver rather than the app? havn't been able to find a way and id love to know how the laptop is managing (i run the app on here)

Well.. the way to do it w/ the SS is a green progress bar on the bottom of the screen.... I have both the app and the SS... but I harldy ever use the app.

a Team update


Lets keep folding guys.. and for those of you still thinking about starting it..... hurry the F up.. ;D

Got another couple on the way..... It certainly makes you appreciate Double processors dosn't it ;)

I hate you all.  Im still grinding away at around 17% =(

Fortunately my protein is worth 128 points, but still.  =P

Oh well, you shall all rue the day when dual 3Ghz G5's come out...if them ever come out.  

Anyhow, with summer here for me, i should hopefully have this one done long before the July 5th deadline.

lol and you can certainly see who in our team has a G5 *cough* mysterio *cough* you bastard ;)

ive got a duel G4 1Gz Desktop and a 1Gz G4powerbook both running this...... but its so damn slow!

We need more guys. come folk if you havn't got a Protien to Chew on, Go Get One!

So my name gets added to the team when I complete a Protein?

yes it does

Mmmmm chewing on proteins....yummy...

19.75% now.

If this is gonna be a community project, shouldn't the thread be stickied?

An another note I just did my first protein.

NJ Crypt

ha! i knew my 400MHz server wouldn't be useless ;)

Elan

Is it a stop and go kinda thing? In other words, can I leave it on while I'm at school during the day, but then quit when wanna play rvs, and still have my progress saved?



Hmm, it seems I should read before I type. All figured out. I'm downloading the screen saver one

Not totally - but yes it saves as it goes as it were so you don't have to start from scratch - it will revert to the 'last save' - but it does it quite regulally so it isn't much of an issue ive found

Well, I downloaded everything and was going to set it up on a couple of my Pentium 3 test servers at work running full time. Yeah, I know PCs, but that is work. Anyway, the corporate firewall prevented me from downloading the first set of data  >:(. At least I tried!!

One Thing I hve noticed in the past.. I used the App first and it too 2 weeks to compleate my first fold.... then i switched to the SS and was doing a fold every day to 4 days...
ALSO....IT YOU PLAN TO USE THE SS AND THE APP.... I WOULD AVISE AGAINST THIS.. EVEN THOUGH THEY WORK ON THE SAME DATA.. THE APP WILL RESET YOUR PROGRESS TO 0% IF YOU SWITCH BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE 2 PROGRAMS.. This happend when i first was using the SS.. i used the app some to see wich one worked faster.. I went w/ the SS

I'm working on some bigass protein, because it's taken 2 days to get like 10%

Welcome to my world Crypt =P

lol wolf. Are you sure your not just munching away on a sandwich or somthing rather than just a single protien? sounds like you have the mother of all beasts going!

Ive got the same one Mysterio has, except on a 1ghz laptop.

*sheds a single tear*

Remember....You might have the same protien... but you might be working on a diff part of it

i don't think i'm working on a protien here...more like a entire strand of DNA.

i'm using the ss, letting it run for 18 hours a day and i think i JUST got to 20 %

Yeah i think ive just found a mother of a protien strand... This baby has been going uninterupted for 6hours now... and ive only just hit 1.15%  !!

A quick update: We now have 12 guys! Woot Gj Guys :D

1    DJDisturbed                            6034.63        193
2    eight                                      1617.28        37
3    -MP5-Mysterio                        383.0            8
4    DJDisturbed.powerbook           201.41         13
5     Spetsnaz                               172.0            5
6     BFG                                      102.0            3
7     Elandrion.server                    67.0              2
8     DAMN_Mac_Gaming_Team    67.0              2
9     :MoD:_bigtex                         44.0             1
10    The_.::_N_etwork                23.0              1
11    CrYpt                                   23.0              1
12    static                                   11.69            1

damn, is this screensaver slow on my eMac...

OMG, I was working on that beast of a protein and it reset for some stupid reason, I hope it just hasn't updated it yet.

Jeez Harv, Your G5 is pwning those proteins.

Does my computer suck or do I just have the moby dick of the proteins?  I started folding last night and when i woke up it was only 5.75% done.  Im on a 450mhz g4 cube.

Probably both.

Actually, there is a way you can find out.

Set the display to Alpha Trace.  What this does, is it shows you essentially the backbone of the protein.  So, when i say i have an Alpha Trace comrpised of 6 seperate amino acid strings, and 2 AA's that are free floating, i hope you know its a huge bastard.  The screen cant even hold the entire protein at one time, some of it is always hanging off the farking screen.

 Im making a leap here, but im guessing that -theoretically- every protein displayed in the ALpha trace could exist on its own, but it doesnt, just because.  So thats why they lump them all into one "protein"

Oh well, 40.25% now, and ive got plenty of time to get this one done (July 5th)  I just hope i get a smaller one next time around!

~Lone, eating a sandwich

I think I got ripped off on my mega-protein, Lone. It finished and didn't count.

Damn dude, that sucks!

Well, maybe the credit went to me instead.  Of course it didnt, but i can always hope, cant i?  ;D

Seems they have one or two bugs to work out before the program is flawless, but i dont think we can really complain, id like to see any of us make a program that does this shit =)

~Lone, still eating my sandwich

Hmm ok, thanks a lot wolf that answered my question. I got the moby dick of proteins with i think 7 seperate amino acid strings, and 2 free floating amino acids.

Sounds like mine.. p638_L939_K12M_ext its been going for just over 24 hours now and so far has managed 10.25% !!

Damn BFG, you stole my protein! Ive got the same one, except without the _ext.

Now i have to finish it before you! Go laptop go!

I have p639_L939_K12M, so I guess they are very simillar unless you hit the 8 key instead of the 9.  
On another note, it's kinda funny how we are comparing proteins, and racing folds.

When they made teams and stuff they should have included ladders. ;)

*** CrYpT searches for hacks.

rolf wolf, how far have you got? I just realised that i never started up the app again after i had to render some film earlier... precious hours wasted damn it!

** BFG whispers sweet nothings as he mops the brow of his Duel G4 as it groans its way through another plate of protien.


ps... crypt there is a ladder!! Thats the whole point of having the teams lol. i think google is number one currently :(

Lol BFG

Im not telling =)

Give your G4's hard drive a magnet, it makes them go faster...honest...
(let the Folding@Home sabotage commence!)

To try and cut down on heat, and save my laptop from melting, im removing the keyboard (its attatched via ribbon cable that i have a little wiggle room with) and raising it up on stacks of books and putting a fan underneath it, and its still whirring away with all the fans that it's got.

oh well.  I say again, you all will rue the day that i get a Dual 3ghz machine (im set in the notion that sometime soon, Apple will come out with them)

Im guessing you must be near around 50/55% .... oh god lol which means i have a lot of catching up to do!

put a blanket over it wolf, helps the computer in these chilly nights to keep snug so it can work faster.  And if it gets hot give the processor a drink of water, that always cools me down when im working to hard ;)

Damn it im gonna go work on the laptop so this beasty can get to work :)


ps... now where is that magnet ;)  ;D



ps for those of you that want to track the ladder you can find the top 100 (we are a little way further down ;) here (http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teamstats)

Hogging the top spot is Google! They have a total of: 98,396,248 points!!

Down with google i say! DOWN WITH GOOGLE!!!

*Goes to do a google search on ways to bring down Google*

Well.... here's a alpha trace of the protein my G5 has been munching on for the last 15hr (up time)

(http://homepage.mac.com/themp5/mp5/alpha.jpg)

lol this is daft... We'll be giving our protiens pet names next.

What do you think wolf? do we have a boy or a girl?!

(http://www.isophia.co.uk/webimages/protien.pdf)

Lol, id agree with you BFG, yur all bloody daft =)

Id say it looks more like an 'it'

THE HUMANITY! <faints>

P.S. Yarr! 99% through Mr. Huge Protein!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! It isn't counting my big whopper of a protein? BASTARD! I want my 19hrs back! STUPID APP! I HATE YOOUUUUUUUUU.

lol. yeah it does happen occasionally. well when i say occasionally i have had aprox 5 protiens not count :(

Just doulbe check that your settings have the correct number etc for the team - oh and cross your fingers ;)

Like I said.. I used to have prob like this out of the app ver of it.. thats why I started running the SS.. Not had any probs out of it so far.

argh i know but i run the app becasue i find i get much better results from it - and i can use the comp while the app runs in the background all the time

Anyone know if it's bad for the processor to leave it running every night when I sleep (at least 8 hours a night)

I leave mine up all the time.. I think i shut the computers down one day a month.

Can't remember the last time i shut the computer down other than a restart for software updates...i really cant :D

i'm still working on my first protein :'(

Still on the same god damn protien here still... Wolf how close to done now are you? You must have hit round the 60/70% mark? Go on tell uncle bfg ;)

I am so behind you its shocking... 27.50%  .... it was 25.50 six hours ago... omg this is slow. p638_L939_K12M i do not like you any more :(

Im at 55.75% right now =(   However, the weather is getting a lot cooler right now, so i dont feel so bad leaving it on for long periods of time.  Yesterday it topped off at about 90, and for Washington, that is scorching hot.  In Celsius thats right around 32.2 degrees.

Too farking hot for me, so i felt bad for my computer.  I popped off the keyboard and just tapping the heat sink with my finger gave me a second degree burn =P

So now im elevating the computer on books, taking off the keyboard, and having a fan run underneath it, and im debating whether or not i could fill a bag of ice cubes/icewater and put it on the heatsink for a minute or two to cool it off.  I probably wont, but ive had the thought =P

By the way BFG, now you know the ph33r of protein p638_L939_K12M...wuahahaha

~Lone, still eating a sandwich

hehe 55.75%? so you have gone up about 10 in the last 5 days?! hehe

Blimey looks like Alice sorry sorry i mean p638_L939_K12M,  has got the better of you! mwhaha :)
Well actually im kinda feeling the wrath to to be honest... i have managed just over 6% so far today... thats with this comp working on it from 8am and its now 10.00pm. 6 freaking percent.

I have the heating turned off in here - the mac is keeping the room toasty warm though... i thought about making some popcorn off the exhaust at the back...

~ BFG "You want a pickle in that Sandwich?"

w00t, finished my first protein last night with the screensaver... took 5 nights!

Only 5? ;)

ps lone-wolf im catching up on your sandwitch ;) 41% ... i think this has been going for about a week and a half. If this dosn't count when its finnished i think i will cry!

Is that a Civic night, or a normal person night?  ;)

ok.. well I have been timing my g4 powerbook (500mhrz) and its st like 50% after a week and a half of working on a project... I'm going to time the g5 over the weekend.. It just started a new fold this morn so I can get an accurate timeframe

well I timed my g5.... I checked when i got up today (7hrs after i set the SS to run) and It was done w/ the protien it had started this morn.

Oh Funky Monkey Me i just hit 50.00% @ Last!!
... another two weeks and i'll be done!

Wow!  I am definitely NOT going to use my computer at work for this anymore!  I did a fold on my G5 at home in about 8 hours.  I did the download and started one on this piece of crap PC I have at work this morning and in 4 hours it still says 0.00%.  WTF!

May have something to do with the fact that this PC at work is something along the lines of a Pentium II.....lol.

lol. Sounds like the same protien that we've got lol

Lol, i would advise you dont even try to run FAH on a PenII GS...especially if its like the huge-ass protein BFG and I are chewing away on.  (Who else is doing this one? i know someone is)

Im surprised your computer hasnt exploded yet GS.   ;D

Oh and by the way BFG, im at 70% as of about a minute or two ago.  Unfortunately i started at 60% at about 5:00 this morning, and its been running all day...so im tackling about 10% daily, if i leave it running all the time.

Well, I started that fold at work (I found out it is actually a Pentium III) at 7:00 am today and when I left work at 6:30 pm it was at 2%.  I noticed my G5 at home is working on the same fold, and I started it at 6:30 am, before I left for work.  It is now 7:15 pm and that same fold here on my G5 is at 92%.  So, for all you math wizards out there, just how much faster is my G5 than that piece of crap Pentium III???

Uhhh, has anyone else seen a 7 stringy-things and 2 loose before? I think my previous high was 6 and 1...

Aye, the protein ive been working on is 7 full strings with 2 floaties =)

Yep same protien here as lone.... still ;)

on a side note we now have 18 active Folders which is fantastic :D Keep bullying everyone else to help out as well ;)

Keep in mind also the people like myself and Brain who arent listed yet because we havnt finished our first protein.

Very true... ok lets say 20+  

Still not very many considering the size of the *DAMN Community  >:(

It actually it should read 17.
I changed my name from DAMN_Mac_Gaming_Team to KGB.
But apparently it sees this as different members.  ;)

Well, if you want I could set up the 50 or so PC's I have at work to do folds at night.

Errhmm, Harvey counts for about 10 people himself.

Well, I just got started with folding with my G5 so I'll just let it run 24 hours a day and see if that helps.

Still haven't finished mine, I think. Not entirely sure...hmm.

Are you serious?  ;D

Yeah, I just gotta sneak the program onto all of the computers....would probably do the Screen Saver version and just set it to start up after everyone goes home.

No GS, that wasn't the mother of all folds. That was a 6/2 fold... there are 7/2 folds here that my G5 is working on... I'll be damned if my fold is only worth 128, it better be like 200.

lol Ghost GJ ;) However it wont last for long, both me and lone have a 7/2 Fold on its way in! :D

Well when i say on its way... 54% so probably not for another two weeks or so  :o :o

7/2 fold I started yesterday, let it go 2 hours, stopped, 2 hours last night, 3 this morning is at 29%.

hahaha - I beat you all with my first 128.0-score protein ;)

Elan

I keep getting the pussiest of pussy proteins.

Lol i wouldn't complain Crypt... much better to have medium sized ones to eat regulally than the mother of all protiens that takes a month to digest :)

Ya, but when i had one of those it didn't count :(

Oh boy, don't say that.... knowing my luck this big bastard won't count either.... might have it done by the beginning of next week!

Ok.. so far we are not doing bad.. we have around 20 peeps w/ compleated folds and around 30-35 computers working on them...

BTW.. who is smerx??  he has at least 7 computer running FaH.. NJ man

Chrikey Smerex, stand up man, take a bow! :D

I vote smerx off the island cause he can do these folds faster than my G5!!!!

I plan on passing him up rather quickly when I get some of the PCs here at work doing folds at night.   ;)

I vote GhostSniper off the island for supporting PC use!

Hey, I would have the whole dealership using Macs if the proprietary software, printers, and drivers would work on a Mac!

I'd have a fold going 24/7 on this old G3 if the FaH software actually worked in Classic.

Leave it to GS to make this into a competition. Don't make me buy a dual 2.5 so the 2 can do 24/7 folding.

Hey as long as research is being done, who cares about a little bit of competition :D

If it wasn't competition, then why do they even award you points?  Also, don't think a dual 2.5 is gonna stop me....I'm getting ready to bring some of the PC's at work online to do folds at night (we have over 50 PC's here).   ;)

How about we leave it at a "team" competition.

Hey its all in fun a games... and reserch... Once again thax to all for suporting this team.. I have been trying to get this team going sence Feb.. just no one responed to my first thread about it then.... But thx guys.. you all are doing a great job.. I realy hope to see some of you guys pass me by one day soon...... 8) ;D :D

Its gone faster than a rat up a drain pipe eh ;) its brilliant, just brilliant :D

Im on a mission to get the guys at the epi-centre at uni (three rooms of Duel 2Ghz G5's for vid editing etc) to install it as screen savers.... hehe  ;D

cool.. rember you can use the same SN on more then one comp.. It will just register as mutiple prosecors (computers in reality) working on the same SN

So BFG all you need to do is sneak in there and slap FaH on the computers under your SN, and you're set!

Not considering the whole legallity thing (or lack thereof) and the fact that theyd probably haul you off to prison, you'll be the fastest folder on *DAMN! =D

Yeah :) hehe well i reckon there are aprox 65 G5's in there... so thats 130 Processors isn't it!  ;D

Perhaps a bottle of whisky for my bestest buddy Technician would help ;)

...we could always call virginia tech....

Unfortunately it would only recognize 65 processors....the Folding software doesn't recognize or take full advantage of dual-processor macs yet.   :(

Interesting as it seems to be taking a lot of use out of both mine. when the comp is idle and FaH is runninng it max's out both processors.... ??

BFG,

Maybe it's just greedy and likes to claim it is. I think the Folding program loves my G5...

It uses both prosesors .. yes.. but if you read some of the faq about it on there web site.. It says that it is not optimised for dual prosesors yet.. but that do tell you a way to run two FaH apps at the same times each using one prosesor a piece.. but I think it only works on the PC side.. They did say that they hope to have it optimised for dual poraessors in the future.. witch will mean it will run even faster on dual prosoessor macs.

Cmon! Just 12% left!!! Im going to leave the computer running all night...must beat BFG...

OMG! Only 12%!?

Damn it Lone-wolf you've been swallowing protien without chewing again havn't you! You'll only end up with a a stomach ache, what did i tell you?!

Argh i had to turn this baby off last night so im still on 71%! Doomed i tell you, Doomed!

I'm at 63.5 on my 2nd in a row 7/2 protein.

i'm almost done with my first protien...damn this is taking forever to finish

Slow....I'm now at 71% of my 7/2.

93.25.....

*belch* what's that BFG?  Couldnt quite hear you over the this huge-ass fan i had running -all night- to keep the computer cool.  

You know what i love about these laptops? you can pop the keyboard off and expose the heat-sinks, RAM, and the metal covers over the processor where all the heat builds up, then point a fan at it and vualla.  Heat problem solved.

lol you leave me with no choice... this baby is going to run through the night whether i can sleep or not!

*rummages for the earmuffs*

I can provide you with a set of military-issue foam earplugs we used in the Air Force when working around jet engines.  I used to use them in college to decrease the sound of a snoring roomate.  I still have a few brand new packs laying around the house.

Where do I send them?

95.50% BFG...you better be shakin in yer boots!

(That is of course assuming you wear boots)

They're a shakin, they're adefinatly a shakin. its 10:00am and ive only just hit 82% !

**Goes to prepare his congratulatory speech to lone-wolf**

Lol Ghost those sound perfect.... hmm unless i were to just get somebody to knock me out cold ;)

Oooo! Pick me! Pick me! Me! me me me me me me me mememememememe!

(97%!!!! If this doesnt count im going to cry, really)

OH SHIT. Something Weird is going on.... AGAIN.

Folding@Home now at 0.00%   .... but i still had about 20% of my mega fold to do! why has it got a new protien? I don't want p638_L939_K12M i want my old one back!! If it finnished then why the heck hasn't it counted! nooooooo!


----
AAARGH! Now its jumped back again lol. 83.50% What is going on!!

YAY! my protein finally finished!

i officially need a g5 for this now


for the record that was a 128 point protein, i.e. farging huge

Uh-oh. BFG.  I think it is preparing to self destruct.

Its done some strange things at me too, like say its "Benchmarking" for about 5%, then went back to "working" once i restarted the program.  Also sat there at zero for a while...

I guess the program isnt quite as well designed as SETI is, but, its still fairly new, and hopefully theyll iron out the glitches as time goes on.  Nice job Brain, im right behind you in the G5 line.

Lets just keep slugging through these packets, no matter if they get dropped/not counted, or not, because every one we do does help the scientific field better understand things, like Alzheimers, Mad Cow Disease, and a host of others.  So just keep that in mind if you do have a huge packet dropped, just do another and be happy to know you might be helping to prevent yourself from becoming a vegetable in your later years.

(No offense to anyone who's had a loved one go through alzheimers, my grandmother did...for 10 years.  I dont mean to offend, just trying to make at least a little humor out of such a depressing subject.)

BFG, I would be happy to either send you the earplugs OR knock you out cold.  Anything for YOU buddy!  Just let me know which one you want.   ;)

<wonders why some proteins are so ugly>

They reflect the looks of the person folding them. ;D ;D

BAH ANOTHER UGLY ONE! We are now team #1983 of 31491!

That's rather good.

Hey we have definatly gone up the ranks then! we were much lower than that a short while ago!

I sure hope protein completions arent added immediately...cuz mine isnt there yet....

*looks very, VERY worried*

Ah...there it goes...IM DONE!!! FINALLY!! What a good feeling.
(In your face BFG, im ahead of you, lol)

Alas, i downloaded...p678_L939_K12M...almost the same damn thing, 7/2 protein, looks even more complex (in terms of angles and bends, like one string on the Alpha Trace has 9 links in the chain...*cries*) than the last...oh well! I got one done! w00t! w00t!

lol Congrats Wolf ;) My laptop has picked one up which sounds very familier to that! 89.50% ... i might just make it! ;)

ps. thanks for the offer GS but i think i decided smaking myself, or gettting another to knock me out ever night was a little.... um.... painfull ;) Dem plugs sound good though... how loud was your snoring room mate!

Heres to the important stuff:

Active CPUs within 50 days
26

Grand Score
14760.5 (certificate)

Work Unit Count
397 (certificate)

Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)
1947 of 31498

My Grandfather has cancer, and my Grandmother died of leukemia, count me in.

I wonder if I could talk my highschool into counting this as community service hours...

A bit more seriously:
Remember people this isn't a fad to forget about in a few weeks, we need to help this project through 'til it reaches every goal.

That sounds awsome mate :D the More the merrier!

Was that the wrong thread?

w00t!  GhostSniper now has two processors running folds 24 hours a day (my 1.8GHz G5 at home and a 3.0GHz P4 at work).  I'm comming for you Harvey!!![/size]

OBJECTION!

THIS IS THE DAMN MAC MAC MAC MAC MAC GAMING FOLDING PROJECT, NO PCS!

I was waiting for somebody to do that... ;)

Btw, we're now 1945 out of 31498, and im .50% into my next 7/2 protein.  Ph33r my l337 skillz BFG! PF33R!!

Oh, I'm sorry....I thought it was for a good cause.  You're right, I'll shut down the PC immediately.  And I wont even think about bringing any of the other 50 PCs at my work online for this project.[/size]

Thanks for understanding GS. Now how do you get these AA fools to send me my activation email!

Ok I just downloaded this thing and I'm wondering what team I should join... anyone have an answer for me?

Just out of curiosity, is there a end to this?

isn't it 34948?

Snipe is correct.

It is 34948....my first typo....go figure.   ;)

You guys think its okay for my G5 to leave the folding up and running for my 10 day vacation?  (this would probably mean it wouldn't be sleeping at all)

Sounds a little sketchy to me, but just wanna get your guys' opinions.

You may run the risk of fire.. Or if there's a big storm when your gone it may fry. And lest we forget the terrible risk of melting the G5 due to constant over strain on the system...that Folding app is greedy.

I guess I'm just used to computers that fucking break when you leave them on too long... happened with my ibook

I don't leave mine up but like once or twice a week all night, and whenever i'm afk for like an hour or 2.

uhhh my g4 cube is never turned off, and only the display sleeps, never the hard drive.  It still runs really well, I dont think any damage has been done.  And in other news my 7/2 protein is 98.75% done, thank god, I dunno if it'll be added but oh well it was all for a good cause.

The best part LM, is that right after mine finished, it downloaded another whopper. =(

But, with this heat wave (yes, a heatwave in Washington, amazing isnt it?) over, i should be able to leave my computer running more often, and get this one done faster than the last.

And myst, to answer your question, no there is never an end, because i doubt Stanford will ever run out of proteins to run simulations on, especially because these are like, snapshots of a huge, gigamontreous (?) picture, like, if a protein fold takes milliseconds, each packet is like .001% of that whole fold, so i think we can keep ourselves busy for quite a while with this.

In terms of the thread, hell no, its like the Spam Drop Box, except on a specific subject.

But do they have any goals that once they reach we can all start doing something else?

Ok well im a touch dissapointed, my almighty fold has not counted to the team stats so i got 0 points for all that hard work, but hey it still did it and so its all good..

... still feel a touch peeved off! ;)

Sucks.

Mmmm my G5 is starting to find this all a bit repetitive. At-least that's what the terminal told me.

Hey im not even on the team stat list... gay.

You need to complete a protein to get on.

lol..........

wtf, my protein went to 100% and either i downloaded the same one, and wasnt counted, or it went back down to 0%, whatever.

You might have downloaded the same one..... It will work on the same one lots of times b/c each time it can come up with diff results

oh yeah it did count.  I got 239 points for that one protein, and that puts me straight into 9th place hot damn!

Objection on the grounds LoseMoney only has one "nad" the other is a plastic ball surgically placed.

Counter-Objection Due to the fact the Myst has personal knowledge of said plastic ball--- Pending DNA test WE will be bringing purgury charges up on Myst

My info came from cookie who was forced to have a sex change when she joined *NADS.

Objects based on Withholding of evidence... request fine of one fold

Mysterio holds the rights to all forms of objecting, see signature. Continue this infringement and I will sue... with vengeance.

Objects to Myst owning the rights due to the fact the Owner of the forum (further referred to as Mauti) has not written it out or made a public statement on the matter. So in thats case.... ***Lee.Harvey T-Baggs Myst***

I went to the higher forces to get those trademarks. Go make up lies elsewhere.... MUAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

Objection over-ruled on the basis of spam.

Now just why did this become so warped?

     Because *NADS started posting.

*NADS should be neutered!  >:(

....or just Bronto and PY who aren't necessarily directly related but yea!

if you stick to the display on to alpha trace you can see the structure more clearly - the 7/2's that we have been getting recently consist of 7 strands and 2 single nodes (for want of a better word for them) - i think 7/2 is the biggest anyone has come accross so far

omfg.... i have such a 7/2 monster on my eMac... i made 1% last night... jesus. :o :P

I expect to see some 8/2s soon. It seems to be almost time.

And youre going to like it!

Crikey, it seems after my last 7/2 that failed to register, both this comp and the laptop have picked up pretty mammouth 7/s's - one of which has a strand of 8 and another of 10!! fun fun fun  ;)

I demand I get a bigger protein.

It seems there are bigger than 7/2's which usually wield 128 points, well LoseMoney has 1 WU done and has 239 points. Sounds pretty big to me. ;)

You also get more points on how fast you get them done....

My current protein is showing up very big on my monitor. Several "orb" type things are attached together.

Orbs? What view setting are you on?
(Btw, im getting the wisdom teeth taken out tomorrow, so ill be able to leave my computer running for about 5 days without needing to use it)

Im trying to stay ahead of GS's G5 and his PC. But he has a dual 1.8, so can my G5 2 stay ahead... I wish I had a 2.5!

You are really gonna be left in the dust once I sneak some copies of Folding@Home on some more of the 50 PCs we have where I work.[/size]   ;)

I'll report you GS!

no.. he has a single 1.8

That's right!  Me and BTs_FahQ were too of the suckers that Apple got to buy Single-Processor 1.8GHz G5s right before they released the Dual-Processor models.  But hey, 2.5GB of RAM helps out a bunch.  As will that 256MB Video Card I'm buying soon.   ;)

Why not spend your money better by putting one on my desk? :D

Because I don't buy G5s for traitorous scum that leave the clan.   ;)

Oh shucks, I left because i knew it was never gonna happen, but things can change. ;D

Feck it . For some reason my computers seem to be getting lazy. We havn't managed a fold for days and days and both of the buggers are 7/2'ers - one of which is a complicated little sod.

If only i had been able to get into Uni to install this baby in the epicentre (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~damnr6/yabbse/YaBBImages/hm.gif)

This thread gets more and more like the spam drop box by the day :(

GS! You passed my superior G5 only because you have a PC shit back up.

Your G5   :-[  My G5

Uhh, so, how's your folding. I had a week off from folding. How about you?

I think Mr. "smerx" has been halted because he ain't folding.

Well, at least GS is folding... Perhaps for different reason than usual...

We can tell.

As long as it gets done, why does it matter? :D

Indeed. Now let all all rejoice and fold.

Hip Hip Hurray! I only fold when I have things that need to stay on overnight, and when I'm afk for a few hours. I don't really like the thought of leaving it running for 10+ hours.

*DAMN is Ranked 1290 of 31858.

After a while, I doubt we will move up very far, there are teams such as mac rumors and google etc that have a lot of points.

Then we must talk with Virginia Tech.

well.. unfortunatly.. I got an email the other day asking me to change the name of the team b/c someone complained about the word DAMN in our name.. So im going to change it to the Mac Gaming Community.. sry guys

lol that's funny

Someone complained? Thats really pitiful...i have to say...but oh well.  Unfortunately i havnt had my computer very acting on F@H recently, but ill try to change that.

Excuse me while I go laugh.

w00t!  69 Folds Completed!!![/size][/b]

That's great GS...

What a shame...

1095.....

got my 744 g4 desktop downstairs goin full stream, hardly use it now that i have this laptop...

My G5 is still pumping away 10% of it's waking time. Perhaps I should hire a band of noobs to beat GS.

Objection on the grounds that no matter how many "noobs" Myst can hire, GhostSniper will always be able to hire more due to superior economic conditions.

In other words:  You can not out-spend GhostSniper.[/size]  ;)

Objection on the grounds GS is breaking Mysterio's restriction stated in his signature. He also does not realize that I may not be able to out spend him, but I can get many working for free.

Given up in hope that my Folds might actually count on the bloody table... thats another one thats just finnished and hasn't registered :( awh well, looks like i might have just picked up the first 8/2 !!!  it will be even more comical when this baby dosn't register!

ps... stillc an't believe that some retard complained about us having DAMN in our name heh. bet they were christians who regarded it as blasphemy or somthing :o

;) no offence to any lovely christians of course, obviously.

The Complainer> :-[  <DAMN

Suspects:

Stripes's Mom
Snipey's Dad
Typhy's Goat

Christians would probably have a language filter before they ever even went on the Internet.

I think ive found them (http://www.southavencoc.org/Power/p2003/PARENTS%20INFLUENCE%20ESSENTIAL%20IN%20FIGHT%20AGAINST%20SATANISM.htm)

May we worship satan and may all non believers burn in hell! mwhahha etc

Maybe it was GS....  ???

lol, is a DAMN supporter, so obviously he supports the word DAMN.

Unless he never actually read it until now...

Great work GS, you almost got me started about how much I hate DA? and how they are a disgrace. But I didn't bother.  :D

nj, so that's why you haven't been on GR or the forums much lately. I bet Harvey's G5 is churning away while he's away for a week.

Anyone else notice that recently there have been some really really simple proteins that take as long as a 7/2 or 8/2?

I havnt, because ive not been running F@H much, if at all, recently, because of the absolutely tremendous heat we're getting out here.  As paranoid as it may be of me, i dont want to really kill my laptop by having it run at 100% in 90+ degree weather all day.  When it cools down ill let it run all the time, as well as when i get my...

DUAL 2.5 G5!!!! WUAAAAAA!!!  4-6 weeks baby!

No actualy In my hast to leave that night.. I turned off my computer without thinking about it.. due to the fact that I didn't want to leave it running and something happen to it (they are doing alot of road construction around me and keep knocking the power out)

So....
Any cure yet ?

I Kinda noticed that The teams momentum in growing had perhaps slipped a bit - i for one havn't managed a complete upload of a finnished protien (thats registered) since well before the summer... so perhaps we can kick start things again... :)

how do you all rank against other teams?

we rank 839/32900 other teams doing this bronto

pwning the competition

This also include PC teams.. muhahahahahaha

lol and in just a few weeks time i can start nagging my bestest buddies the technicians at Uni in the EpiCenter (computer suits) to put this on the three rooms of G5's we have.... that is one hell of a lot of juice, just got to remember to put my details in ;)

hey everyone.  just thought i made a few tweaks to my computer, and once the soldering iron burns heal, i'll try to get back into the community again, hopefuly with a significantly faster rig that i have nicknamed frankenputer

Talked to a windows user... He says folding used half his processor... lol for pc

Well, anyone still folding?

Hurrah for GS. I gave up when the heat of the G5 became too much for this room.

My G5 runs rather cold all the time....might just be that I only have ONE 1.8GHz G5 processor in there, though.  :(

Yea, the heat became unbearable in the summer when the temperature (despite heavy air-conditioning) was able to reach 40?C on average.

Someone repost the page to the team please.

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=34948

Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)      789 of 33438

NJ guys.... we are moving up in there

a few technical facts about what F@H has estmiated.....
for mas.. there are    9278 Active CPUs
   62846     Total CPUs
and supply     7.422 Current TFLOPS

the project has reached
172297 Active CPUs
1048352     Total CPUs
and a whopping      196.253     Current TFLOPS of processing power


all this info can be seen here  http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats

you can say that you computer is a part of one of the worlds fastest "supercomputers" http://folding.stanford.edu/news.html.. sence most supercoputer are just alot of CPU's clustered in one area.. well our area is the whole world... Remember.. what you are doing by allowing this program to run could save someone life one day.. including your own, your significant others, or a good friend of your.. you never know

BTW.. there is a newer ver out for mac.. you can get it here http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html  it adds support for Dual prossesor macs and also helps out with some bugs they had... make sure you update soon.

Wow, i'm still in 10th place, I haven't folded since I went on holiday and that was at the end of july...

I might go back to some folding soon, good work guys!

well. i never stopped folding and now that i'm finally getting the g5 tuned, these proteins are falling like dominoes   that said i'm glad i live in wisconsin... i'm going to save a lot on heating this winter

Haha GS. It's only fair that you have competition. I'm gonna get you banned for a week and I'm gonna pass you up.

 
well i can't let you republicans run everything...


besides if worse comes to worse, remember thai do still have access to the delete button ;D

I call foul!  The Brain with the attitude is going off-topic! lol

(doesn't matter that I went off topic first....he is an admin and should know better!!!)[/color]

So who all kept folding while *DAMN was down?  

meee :D my lap top finnished several more - however im still having problems gettting them to register at all!! Its a pain but well im still doing the inportant bit :)

He's using 5 macs. You are using a Mac....and a PC!  :-X

You shouldn't use the PC. Trade it in for a decent Mac.

If you don't have the power, why are you sitting around?

Get moving on that.

All i know is that my Dual 2.5 folds one helluva lot faster than a 1GHz laptop  ;D

Got done with a fairly good sized fold about two hours ago, and already at 50% on another one.  ph33r the Tower of Power!!

~Lone - on a power trip.

.... oh bugger i think ive just got a 8 strander.... its been going for a couple of hours now and its just managed 0.25% lol

The one i just finished had 9, plus, all told 24 more links, in Alpha Trace, that were rather discombobulated.  

Of course...then there's my poor 1GHz laptop...struggling away with something of similar size, since as far as F@H is concerned it's the same computer, since i run them both under the same name (Chris54120 if you care)

Anyhow, back to folding!

Oh my...

I think a picture can describe better than words here....

http://www.freewebs.com/chris54120/

It's due for completion in mid-March...yikes!

Edit - We're moving up in the world!
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 726 of 35497

I'll let you know if ive got to 50% by New year ;)  Both computers have picked this little bastard up and the laptop was sick... The poor thing still hasn't recovered! I can't even get a decent picture that shows you all of the strand becasue they layer up behinid each other!!

(http://www.isophia.co.uk/webimages/Picture8.jpg)

Edit: That would be becasue i fecked the link up ;)

Psst, i see only a little blue box with a ? in it.  Maybe your computer(s) hate you more than you thought.  ::lol::

Nice nice, now lets see how I will do with this folding thing.

What kind of computer do you have Brutha?

BTW - BFG, as i write this, my protein is at 99.75%  ;D

w00tage!

Unfortunately my laptop is at about 50%...poor little guy. G5--> ::troesten::  <--1GHz Laptop

iMac G5, 1.8ghz, 1.25 gb ram

Lone's Macs are getting hawny! hehehe

thats not fair... i think my Fold is going backwards :(

Lol, that's right BFG.  And they want -YOU-! Ha

Brutha, you should have no trouble with folding proteins pretty quickly.  The proteins in the 1400-1404 (and sometimes a bit higher) range, might take you a good couple hard days folding, because they're enormous, but worth a boatload of points! (That's assuming they submit correctly, which unfortunately for BFG hasnt been happening very much)  :(

Well, it's folding for about 6 hours every day. So it should be doing ok

While attempting to run away from Lone-wolfs randy macs, i was horrified to find that both my strands (the mother of all strands) on both macs have only just got past 20%  ... at this speed (and i kid you not) i won't have finished them till July

Just think, BFG.  When you get a Dual 3, youll be able to chew through proteins of that size in no-time flat!

Patience...grasshoppah...

Yay for projects 720-724, dealing with Alzheimers.  Rather hopeful that completing these will help lead to a cure.  As ive mentioned before, my grandmother was afflicted with the disese for 10 years, so, yeah, take me out back and shoot me when i get that old. =P

Do you hear it?

Hmm thats a little odd - and for that very reason i don't use the Screan saver - i use the App which i can run and quit when i need or can share some CPU... flies you could take a look at the support forum i believe you can control the program through the terminal - but i would have a look at your activity monitor first and see what process's are running

Never bother with virus apps like this... for that very reason (and the fact im not running Windows XP ;) )

Over the weekend it seems that theyve released a whole new list of projects & descriptions.  Pretty nifty stuff; it looks like the F@H project is becoming more and more of a success, as they arent focusing strictly on protein folding, but starting to branch out as well. 

Allright F@H is starting to get on my man nipples. First off the beast of a protien that i have been working on for months, the other night decided to stop at 50% and then just cancel itself and get a new protein! Ok now i don't mind becuase i know its done a lot of work etc etc and thats great, but it could have given me some form of recognition on my stats for that bugger! Anway look what my replacment is!!!

(http://www.isophia.co.uk/webimages/fold.jpg)

wow, my G5 ate through a huge protein in no time... woot !

That's what having a G5 will do for you  ;)

Has anybody else run into an instance where you select 'Alpha Trace' and all you get is a little blue dot?  Or understands what the heck it means?  Not that it slows my computer down, I'm just curious.

Well this is all manner of funky...

I recently re-formated my 1GHz laptop, and installed the command line version of F@H on it, instead of the GUI.  I have the same name as i do on my G5, but it has me double listed on the stats page (Youll notice 2 Chris54120's on there, the 2nd, lower one being my laptop)

Bummer

"only" 10 units done and already in 9th place. must've been pretty big proteins i got. :D

ok, I cant figure out how to get this going... if someone could trouble shoot for me the retard It would be nice  Im having problems w/ my router I think

it would be a lot easier to troubleshoot dark if you told us what the problem is...

im not entirely sure of the problem... it constantly says "benchmarking" and I am not sure what I have to do to get it to start.

well benchmarking can take a long time - especially if you have grabbed a monster. how long has it been saying that for?

actually it says it is at 4% now, so it has started mysteriously :)

it "benchmarks" very long but it's running... after a while it will change to "Working..." tho, no worries.

at 35% and chugging along!

i'm joining you guys with my slow ass pc.

good man :D now ive finnished work and no more video rendering im going to churn some buggers out hopefully :D

official first protein account is 77% lets see, this one has been folding for... 3 days plus (as in 76 hours +)

(http://www.zero-t-clan.com/stuff/civic/pics/fah-25may.png)

WTF is this?! i have this protein the third time in a row now, it's just tons of balls. 100 points only for each.

yeeep i got myself one of those... bloody thing isn't exactly moving fast either though! :(

How many of you have gotten ones that, on Alpha Trace, are just 1 little blue ball floating around all by its lonesome?  Ever since my G5 started working i've gotten more of these kinds of proteins than anything else.

Currently working on: P885_p53dimer8

Am I still in second place?  I havn't looked in a while...lol[/size]

Yeah ive got one of those Lone, P1108_Kiefhaber_ to be exact! ;)

the bloody thing was moving along nicely yesterday and now this morning its just stuck at 40% ... its been like this for hours damn it!  >:(

Wait so I just put this screensaver on and it helps cancer research??

i prefer and use the graphical client, faster.

So if I was to walk into my school when it starts and convince our computer teacher to change all the screensavers on all the computers in the school to this folding project it would be able to start mapping a protein then pick it up later if someone turns the screensaver off then back on again?

exactly, everytime the SS is on it connects to the F@H server and continues with its work. depensind on how many and how fast computers you have you'll have a pretty good score and rank in our *DAMN folding group (teamnumber is somewhere at the beginning of this thread). you just need to setup your username and our teamnumber in every SS's settings and it'll be counted for your account.

I'm really blown away by this idea and I'm gonna try to get every online community I have ever been a part of involved... even the Xbox live forums *cringes*... hey they're PC whores and mac bashers but if their comps can help fight cancer why not ask em?

It doesnt help to fight cancer, unfortunately, but the work does go towards curing some other diseases that arent viral or bacterial.  Alzheimers, and I believe Parkinsons disease are two of the bigger ones that could, in time, be solved by F@H.

Cheers foolios
-Lone

I'm sure someone out of those 1 million plus would do it.

Ya, so far the thread has 55 views and one person has claimed he has signed up and he says teamxbox has a folding team so maybe that will encourage them to join :)

how do i get this screen?
i wanna know how far im getting....
coke

in the menubar of the app, "Display Protein".

so with the ss i cant find how far i got?

If you are using the screensaver it doesn't show a percent you need the graphical client to get that screen.

if you look at bottom on SS.. you will see a green bar that shows how far you got.. once it reaches the right side of screen(inbetween the logos) its done

Had to cut it off what with the processor rendering video 24 seven. Keep meaning to get it kick started again though.

I leave mine on as much as possible.

hi haz

i would do this but i'm afraid that the information those nazi scientists get from me might be used to murder a stem cell, or even a blastocyst :(. is there some sort of FOLDing for jesus?

i believe folding for Jesus has been and gone mate. The Romans set up a large colosseum of abacus's and found him pretty quickly.... good for the romans (bad for him!)