*DAMN Community FOLDING Project

[BFG]

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 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

[*DAMN Elandrion]

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

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

[crypt]

What do I download?

[BFG]

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

[BTs_GhostSniper]

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?"

[BFG]

oops lol. sorry. here

[c| Lone-Wolf]

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...

[BFG]

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%

(this is on a Duel 1Ghz G4)

GO for it lone-wolf

[BTs_Lee.Harvey]

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

[BFG]

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 (also means we got a head start with all your guys work )

Guess i'll hop onto the team then!

[BTs_Lee.Harvey]

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!

[BTs_Lee.Harvey]

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.

[BTs_Lee.Harvey]

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'

[crypt]

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

[BTs_Mysterio]

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.

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....

[c| Lone-Wolf]

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

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

yeeeehaw!

[c| Lone-Wolf]

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?

[Typhy]

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.

[BTs_Lee.Harvey]

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"

[c| Lone-Wolf]

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.