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folding question

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drewski

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so i haven't done any distributed computing since rc5 and was looking to start up again, if only to improve the heating in that corner of my living room! 🙂

folding seemed like a pretty good cause, but then i see there is folding @ home && distrubuted folding?!? two different things?
 
yeah, they are both working on protien folding problems, but very different projects.

Distributed Folding is my favorite of the two. I like running it as a service with nothing showing on my monitor. It has a client for (virtually) every OS
and taste. (Screen Saver, text client with ASCII art display in a dos window, and service/invisible.

For the stats whores amoung us, DF is fun because you get points quickly.... and LOTS of em
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Finally, the Stability and Compatibility seem to be some of the best around.

-Sid

Linky

Did I mention TeAm DF is 5th in the world at the moment? 😀
 
looks like they are Canadians. that means each point is worth less?!? 😀

i am slightly partial to f@h since it's being run by my alma mater.

i may just have to flip a coin . . .
 
I am very much biased toward Folding@Home, partly because I've been doing it a long time, partly because it is helping in areas of research that are of personal concern to me (relatives with diseases that the project is working on, etc.), and because Team AnandTech is currently in 21st place and still dropping quickly. 🙁
 
Find-a-Drug is also busy with folding proteins. I wonder if any of these projects duplicate the same work with the same proteins/molecules.
 
Originally posted by: beatle
Find-a-Drug is also busy with folding proteins. I wonder if any of these projects duplicate the same work with the same proteins/molecules.
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cool, I didn't know FAD was also a folding project. I guess protien folding is a problem that lends itself well to the DC solution.
I remember seeing information indicating that DF and FAH were not duplicating efforts, but don't know about FAD?

DF is kind of my home project and I have one computer helping a buddy on Folding@Home..... I wish I had a third pooter to give Find-A-Drug a try.

Fold on dude and dudettes! (All are good projects and could use the cycles.... you can't hardly go wrong!)

-Sid
 
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