EOC Folding@Home Team

[Jason]

Our goal: to understand protein folding, protein aggregation, and related diseases

What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.

What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously acheived. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease

How can you help? You can help our project by downloading and running our client software. Our algorithms are designed such that for every computer that joins the project, we get a commensurate increase in simulation speed.

What have we done so far? We have had several successes. You can read about them on our Science page, Results section, or go directly to our press and papers page.

Performance hits when using folding at home can be seen here
This will show you that there is no affect on the system when using folding at home. Now you have no excusses not to Join the team Thanx to Limpyloco for suggesting this be added to the thread

To get started D/L the software and sign up a user name Click Me

For Intel & AMD users

1. Create a FAH folder.

2. Put the FAH4Console.exe from Stanford in a new FAH folder in C:.

3. Create a new shortcut and specify the path as
"C:\FAH\FAH5Console.exe" -advmethods -forceasm(Intel) and -verbosity 9

4. Put the shortcut in your startup folder and reboot your machine.

5. The client starts automatically and you can set up your user name and team number etc.

6. Select yes for advanced options and put fah in the choice for (auto/fah/gah)

The team number is 11314

and the team name is EOC Folding@Home Team

Here is a link to the Flags and there usage

Check the individual team members stats Here

Check the team stats Here

Check are team in the top 1000 ranking Here

Here is the Link to the FAQ

Here is a Link to the Protien points/projects Here

Here is a link to the server status Here

Here is a link to the stanford forum Here

[dynetk]

We didn't have a team until now I'll be joining shortly.

[Bigc06]

This is going to sound stupid but what exactly is this. what is folding@home.

[CrazyP]

hey shroomer, does it use alot of rsources. if im playingh a game or something will i notice?

It will only use the extra cpu cycles. It will not slow down other apps

[Ocelot]

ok, i've got it up and running, i was gonna do it before, but my temps were like 52c, and now i have a huge fan blowing in, so its under 40c at full load

[Ocelot]

wow, i just started running it, and its working a hell of a lot faster than my 800mhz celeron

Welcome to the Team Ocelot

[Drozdov]

Welcome Ocelot, AMD rigs owns Folding@home

well not if you have 3ghz hehehe

[Drozdov]

to get a p4 rig at 3ghz is the same price as 2 AMD rigs at 1.8ghz

Na i doubt that including HD,s maonitors and everything

[Ocelot]

i was gonna set up my old comp to run folding@home all the time, but my friend might be buying it, if he doesn't, i'll set it up in my brothers room (hes off to college, so i can use his port on the router) and let that run all day, if i keep the same name on it, but on the same team they will both add to each other?

Yes they will use the same name and team number

[Ocelot]

my moms comp is on literally all the time, i dont think its had a shutdown for like a year, lol, well, thats an exaggeration, but it rarely turns off, i'd put it on there if she wouldn't yell at me wondering what it is

ya just tell her that it helps cure deseases so its all good

[Ocelot]

i was just thinking, well, i thought about this a while ago, but this brought it back up....anyways, our school has 5 400mhz dells in every classroom, and we have like 150 classrooms, and a few comp labs w/at least 30 in each room, they have this thing where when the comp restarts, it loads an image off the network and puts everything back to the way it was, so if u install a game, its gone when u restart....anyways, i was just thinking about how much proccessing power that is added up, i wish i could go and change that image, that would be awesome

O ya that would really help the team and get you suspended to hehehe

[Ocelot]

lol, i'll give it a try, heh, they keep the stuff visible on the network, so if i could find a way to leave a comp on overnight and download the image from home to there, then edit it, put it on a cd and bring back to school, the hard part would be replacing, lol, i'll use my 1337 H4x0|2 5k|LL5 for that part, lol

[Drozdov]

well if u do get caught, just say ur helping out research on why proteins fold.