I would like to invite you to
join our F@H team because it puts your computer to work when you are not using it to help save peoples lives.
Millions of people die of Parkinson's, Alzheimers, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and and even many cancers that result from protein misfolding and there is something you can do about that: FOLD
WWW.MAC-FORUMS.COM has our very own folding team and we need your help.
our team number is 37954 , use it when you are stetting up your F@H client!Here you can fold to save lives and also fold for great competition between teams as they are probably the best way to get the news out about folding. We are currently ranked 692nd in the world and we are only going to climb!
What is Folding@Home???
FAH is a distributed computing project, the purpose of which is to learn how proteins fold and misfold. By breaking down the process by which proteins are created we can find out what causes them to miscreate or misfold. The hope is that this will lead to future research that can help scientists come up with better treatments/cures for many of todays common ailments. But the most important part of the project is putting together an effective model of how to fold and unfold proteins with supercomputer power.
This is an extremely complicated process that requires awesome amounts of computing power that was virtually unattainable prior to the start of this project. This project harnesses the power of thousands of individual PC's connected to the internet by breaking down the necessary work and allowing those individual computers to work on small pieces of information and then returning the calculated results to stanford university. Once the work is done and returned your computer will automatically get fresh data to calculate. The work is then piece back together at Stanford university. There are results and more information posted on the at
Folding@Home Website
We are TEAM "mac-forums" and if you would like help setting up the client you only need to ask and there will be several people ready to help. For more info on the project please follow this
link
Folding @ Home only uses your extra, currently wasted CPU cycles! So... why not save lives with them and help out TEAM "Mac-Forums"….
this will not slow down your computer!!!
How can I help, you talked me into it??
GREAT. We at Mac-forums.com suggest you use the program called
inCrease 2.07b ) in order to maximize your computers folding power. Once you get it feel free to ask about how to properly set up your system in order to get the most out of your mac.
I'll tell a llittle about folding and why I and many other members of our site do it.
Folding@Home is a DC (distributed computing) program that can be run on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. It is a study being done by Stanford University to hopefully find a cure to many diseases that are caused by protein misfolds. Most of us run this program to find a cure and partly for the stats. The way it works is that you get the program, input your username and team number, and it will connect to the Folding at Home assignment servers and download a work unit (WU), then your computer processes this WU (protein) to see how it folds. Then it sends it back in and gives your username and team points for that work unit. Mac-Forums’ team number 37954 has reached a position of 695th place in the statistics and could definatly use some help to get higher!
Now, stats are some fun, friendly competition, but that is not all that folding is about, it is mostly for the research, if you guys want to fold, but not be associated with us, thats fine, but it would still be nice to see more people aiding medical research. Who knows...it could save your own life further down the road.
-=Quick Links=-
Our Team Site That's our team statistic page which shows the points and your rank within our team. That is me (csantimauro) in first place
Stanford's Folding Info Page
Stanfords Stats
inCrease 2.07b used to fold better and more efficiently
To create your own
Signature image similar to mine, Coach_z’s, please visit this thread:
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30837 and follow the instructions
If you have any questions or comments please post in this thread and we will help answer your questions as quickly as possible.
-Chris
PS. I would like to thank
Modenaf1 from
www.ocforums.com for bringing folding to our forums attention. This thread has become very old and confusing so it needed to be edited and brought up to date.
Man it's awesome that we are 695th place out of 44,450! That's pretty amazing!
