Folding at home

[smack]

Heard of distributed computing before? Remember SETI, where your computer works on looking for messages from little green men. Well FAH (in my opinion) is a much better cause. Use your computer's idle time to help Stanford University to find a cure for a few diseases. Like these ones.

Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

It's easy to install and runs in the background. JJ and I have been doing it for a few years now. I fold under my own name and also have a few CPU's folding for a departed friend.

The team I fold for is currently 2nd in the world. They have been 1st, but the damn yanks outnumber us 10 to 1.

Anyone interested in forming a Bikesandscooters.com.au subteam, to help the Aussie team regain 1st place?

I'm sure between Jim and I, we could coddle up some simple instructions.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

http://www.overclockers.com.au/folding/

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To participate you need to download the F@H client from http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html. There are three different versions of the client – the graphical, console, and screensaver versions. This guide will only cover the graphical and console clients.
The graphical client is the easiest and fastest client to set up. However, some people have reported problems with the graphical version interfering with certain games. If you are a gamer you may want to install the console version instead. You can also install multiple instances of the console client on a single computer, whereas you can’t do this with the graphical client. Installing multiple instances is useful if you are running a P4 Hyperthreading machine as 2 instances will produce more points per week than a single instance on these machines. Even better if you have a dual core computer! My personal favourite is the console version, a bit fiddly to set up, but runs out of sight and starts and stops itself automagically.

http://www.overclockers.com.au/foldi...entinstall.htm has pretty explicit instructions on installing both types.

Remember the two most important parts, your username Bikesandscooters.com.au and team number 24

[doit]

I will give it a crack, I have a few machines sitting here doing nothing.

Noticed this strange person...
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[smack]

well, you being the boss. What name shall we fold under? I have a spare machine at home that'll do 1000 points per day.

Now, this will be a subteam, so when starting it you have to enter the username and the team number. 24 is the number.

[doit]

Originally Posted by smack

well, you being the boss. What name shall we fold under? I have a spare machine at home that'll do 1000 points per day.

Now, this will be a subteam, so when starting it you have to enter the username and the team number. 24 is the number.

Why not Bikes_and_Scooters.
It was well worth visiting the folding site and watching the video to understand what it's all about. Seems like it's very simple, doe's the stuff work on Macs?

[smack]

Yeah, macs are fine. There are are few different ways of running it, and plenty of information on how to install.

Give us a day and JJ and I will come up with an idiots guide.

Edit: Actually, there are a few subteams that use the url for their team name. You could use Bikesandscooters.com.au

[doit]

Originally Posted by smack

Yeah, macs are fine. There are are few different ways of running it, and plenty of information on how to install.

Give us a day and JJ and I will come up with an idiots guide.

Edit: Actually, there are a few subteams that use the url for their team name. You could use bikesandscooters.com.au

url sounds great, look forward to the idiot guide. We will be

[Woodsy]

I did the Seti thing for ages untill i got a new PC.

I have a PC at home sitting idle all day that i could let run.

Canoodle up some simple instructions and i'll be in.

[Iffy]

right, I'll dress up like a guide, smack will be the idiot.......

Actually, all the guides you need are at the OCAU site, I'll plagiarise one into a B&S version as soon as I finish my profuse ramblings on riding home from GP '07, then reconfigure my beasts to fold for sub-team B&S..

Good idea smack.. we'll beat those septics, and keep Boky's good work going

[ward_4e]

Folding?



ahhh Folding....

[smack]

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/MacOSXConsole


This the guide you after Steve? Unless you want to go for the big points and try the beta SMP client for Macs. My knowledge of Macs is limited to checking email in 1999 when I was employed by Optus.