Folding @ Home

**badbest321** · 10-29-2009, 10:49 PM

Hey if you guys dont check the front page much i thought i would post this link up. http://www.tacticalgamer.com/tactica...your-help.html. It talks about how we can band to gether to help out cancer by folding protiens on your rig.

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**Extinct** · 10-29-2009, 11:21 PM

Yep good post. I started to do this about 1.5 years ago and keep intermittently continuing the folding. Once I get my win7 rig up ill start climbing in the ranks again. Also I will play more COD4/5 when its all set up.

Balfa · 10-30-2009, 01:44 PM

I wonder if folding @ home causes more cancer than it cures by keeping all those millions of PCs (and PS3s) worldwide busy, running at full speed, using lots of energy to do so, and heating the rooms they're in, requiring even more energy to keep those rooms cool (in summer) and putting lots more pollution into the atmosphere and our lungs

I guess it's not an issue for me, because the Texas wind powers my house.

**birdie_in_Texas** · 10-30-2009, 01:51 PM

I think I am like #24..KD is way up there...and even Gunner was ruinning it 24/7 for a long time..

**redneck_fgf** · 10-30-2009, 03:09 PM

How much of my band with will it use? have 3 servers that could run it 24/7... they are just home servers to store files/music/vid...so they don't do much..

**Spyder228** · 10-30-2009, 04:08 PM

F@h shouldn't use to much bandwith. It only requests work units when the previous one is completed and works units usually are less than 10 Mb unless you specifically tell it download the larger units.

Balfa · 10-30-2009, 05:24 PM

yeah, it uses a negligible amount of bandwidth. That's the whole reason it works. A central server can farm out little chunks of data for distributed machines to run very heavy computation on them that could take hours to do, then the distributed computers send back their findings. If it required a lot of bandwidth, there wouldn't be any value to using distributed computers, they'd just run all everything on a local mainframe or server farm.

**birdie_in_Texas** · 10-30-2009, 06:43 PM

I usually have a machine or 2 running this and S.E.T.I looking for alienz and such!

but I sold one box, and then had another go down, so I scavenged parts and the "baby" box lost out and had to give up it's guts..

I will get it running again toot sweet!

**badbest321** · 10-30-2009, 09:41 PM

noice i was hoping i could get some of you guys to help out, i have been folding out of my mind for the last month.

Edit: I finally just passed gunner for just folding on my vid card