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[fnerd]

Uh, Tulatin

WTF is "folding at home? Why does it rate a team (prolly included in last answer). Why don't I know these vast techie things? All I am is a half-vast user.
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[Tulatin]

Now, this is why i had initially had the idea of putting up a question and answer section to our folding at home team announcement. Here goes -

Our Folding at home team is a distrobuted computing team, which runs folding at home in the attempt to do two thigs: the first is to help out humanity by seeing why and how protens fold wrong, causing all sort of fun disesase (mad cow...), and the second is to push our tech site into the top 100 ranking, eventually to the Top 10. Sure this is ambitious, but with support, any dream will fly.

The Client Can Be downloaded from here - http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/download.html

Now, once it's downloaded, run it, and the config window will pop right up. In the User Name field, put in your motherboards.org User name, and in the team field, enter 33258. That will give yo uthe ability to begin doing work units. However, these things take a long time, usually 4-6 hours for the 400 block ones on good machines.

The official page for folding is right here - http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/

It should answer any remianing questions. Now, if there is anythign else you need to know, PM me. Also - the best way to get it online is to check off "use internet explorer connection settings" in the connection tab of the configuration utility. After it's all configured, hit okay, and when you see numbers under work unit progress, it's going.

-Tulatin

Now, as to why it rates a team is fairly simple - it gives us a place to combine our efforts together in, and an official banner to work under.

[fnerd]

Thanks, Tu, for the explanation. Cool project. There are probably
teraflops of ways protiens can fold. I'll look at the sites. But I don't run that kind of uptime and don't like to network, so apologize in advance for not partiipating.
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[Tulatin]

Don't worry about it dude, and as to uptime, just leave the pc on, whether you use it or not. As to networking, there's almsot none to be done, so just do a littel config and it's ripe for use.

[whiteboy]

ok i went ahead and joined the folding@home team. do we have anymore teams out there. I also do seti@home and was wondering. might even create 1 if needed
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[NascarFool]

I am folding for another place, otherwise I would have joined up here. As you can see, I have been doing it for a while.

[evasive]

If it's anything like SETI, teams can join other teams as well (hint, hint). Ask the teamleader, Nas.
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[NascarFool]

I'll check into it.

[Tulatin]

That is true - come over to the dark side nascar!

[Tramp]

hey since this is a new Folding @ home post ... and Evasive and Tualitin are both here .... I gots a new question ... Evasive how does it work with the Linux distros and since that machine that I'm going to use is such a clunker P3 500 would it be better with the linux distro ... due to decreased overhead ... vs the bloated MS OS's

let me know !!

PS I would possibly be interested in suping the p3 badboy up a bit heres the specs that I remember

ASUS dual processor board (only one 500 tho maybe I can find another one cheap in a auction or something (slot 1 (cartridge type right?)) id have to get the step and such to make sure they are compatible) then OC the both of them to do some serious folding ...

that is if the folding at home Linux distros are optimized for smp machines!

any info is appreciated ...