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Jeff Flowerday
03-24-2007, 01:10 AM
Alzheimer's Disease (http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-diseases.html#AD)
Cancer (http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-diseases.html#Cancer)
Huntington's Disease (http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-diseases.html#HD)
Osteogenesis Imperfecta (http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-diseases.html#OI)
Parkinson's Disease (http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-diseases.html#PD)
Ribosome & antibiotics (http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-diseases.html#Ribo)

http://folding.stanford.edu/

It's simple, install the software and give a few CPU cycles to the cause. Your machine will download a unit of work and get busy on it. When done the results get pushed back up to the main server.

Now I've created a Guitars Canada team:

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=58251

Team Id: 58251

Just enter it in the software and lets see how much we can do as a team.
noobcake
03-24-2007, 03:10 AM
btw, you can do this with a Playtation 3 too, read an article on that on some tech newsletter.
Jeff Flowerday
03-24-2007, 03:31 AM
btw, you can do this with a Playtation 3 too, read an article on that on some tech newsletter.

That's how I heard as well. I have my PS3 and my more powerful laptop running it.
mandocaster
03-24-2007, 10:38 PM
A gridframe as opposed to a mainframe....interesting concept.
Jeff Flowerday
03-24-2007, 11:53 PM
Intertesting stat on computing power contributed so far.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats


The software has been optimized for the Cell processor and the ATI GPU so you can see in a matter of a few days the PS3 is kicking some major butt in Folding.

Too bad it isn't worth crap for playing video games.
Jeff Flowerday
03-26-2007, 12:41 PM
Somebody else must have some spare CPU cycles for a good cause...
SinCron
06-02-2007, 07:10 PM
Im already doing this for team ABit.
keto
06-20-2007, 12:15 AM
I bet I have more cycles than the lot of you combined ;) I've been doing this for about....4 years or so, and I run 5-6 computers at all times at home :)

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/search.php Here's the people who keep the 'score', search for keto 545,000 points