Folding at Home and Seti at Home

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-07-05 12:00pm

I'm sure someone has long ago posted something about these two. So which do you use?

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-07-05 12:47pm

SETI, because Fast Fourier Transforms warm my heart.

edit: moved to OT

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-07-05 05:41pm

I did 2500+ wu and got boored but SETI is still my fav

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-07-05 07:02pm

GAH!!!
I forgot both, I have two computers available to me, and I have one of each, dumb me dumb me.

Faram, is that "wu" work unites or just work hours?
If the former, then you must own a server.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-07-06 02:22am

I don't do either, mainly because I don't leave my computer on all night long, and I'm only on dial-up. However, I do know someone that built a huge folding farm in his own house.

http://www.descentbb.net/ubb/Forum8/HTML/005273.html

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-06 02:25am

I used to do SETI, and I helped a frend insall Folding on my school's network (30 or so computers, we got it installed on 16)

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-07-06 03:08am

SyntaxVorlon wrote:Faram, is that "wu" work unites or just work hours?
If the former, then you must own a server.

That answer your question?

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-07-06 03:43am

Faram wrote:
SyntaxVorlon wrote:Faram, is that "wu" work unites or just work hours?
If the former, then you must own a server.
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi- ... 500&size=0

That answer your question?

BITCHIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've done something like 15 on my mother's lap top, and I've started again with the new version of FaH on my PC.
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kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-06 03:52am

i've completed 489 data units in SETI@home. total time is about 3528 hours. only 1.65 years to go until i have matched Faram. by then i'll have a new computer. LOL

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-07-06 05:55am

Do they give you anything for completing the data units?

P.S. aside from that there "certificate"?

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-06 05:57am

Robert Treder wrote:Do they give you anything for completing the data units?

P.S. aside from that there "certificate"?

With the folding thing, you get prizes, or so I'm told...

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-07-06 10:29am

I am a long time SETIer, but what is this folding thing you speak of?

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-06 11:56am

Nathan F wrote:I am a long time SETIer, but what is this folding thing you speak of?

Folding Proteins for a cure for Cancer or something, I think. Haven't done it myself, just helped people set it up.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-07-06 02:08pm

You can fold for folding at home or genome at home, both are for the same basic thing. Because proteins fold in on themselves extremely quicky understanding how they work and what their specific fuction is requires knowledge of how they fold and what they look like afterward, so this program emulates every nanosecond of the folding process, and allows the people at the work stations in stanford to work out what they do.
And it's not just for cancer I don't think, they are also researching proteins as nanotechnology.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-06 02:50pm

SyntaxVorlon wrote:And it's not just for cancer I don't think, they are also researching proteins as nanotechnology.

I bet they won't give the fold@home-ers a bit of the income when they make protein nanorobots with the help of distributed computing. THOSE BASTARDS!

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-07-06 02:55pm

I was doing a Genome one, but I think the project was finished...

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-07-06 03:44pm

I use the unified F@H/G@H client. Both are likely to have more real-world uses than SETI@home.

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