Just curious if anyone was interested in either starting a Maxima.org team or joining my current team. I feel with the competative nature we all have here and the manpower that we could make a good showing. We have more members on this board than most of the other teams. Here's a link to the stats page and a link to the main site for the project.

http://www.statsman.org/distfoldingstats/

http://www.distributedfolding.org/



With the draft Human Genome scientists have only a 'flat' view of the molecular structures of proteins that make up the working parts of living cells and the human organism. Proteins are the parts that make up the machinery of living cells. In order to really understand what a protein does, scientists need to know the 3-dimensional structure of the protein and understand how several proteins assemble into these living machines. By knowing how proteins behave, scientists can better understand how proteins misbehave and cause diseases. With the structures of proteins scientists can better create new effective therapeutics to treat myriad diseases.




DF is highly addictive. The points are earned very quickly and show up on the DF stats servers within 15 minutes. The client is unobtrusive and only uses idle cycles. It will not slow your computer down in any way other than to use RAM. As soon as you need your cpu to process something DF stops. When you are no longer using your cpu, DF starts again. The DF results are freely available to anyone who wants them, unlike some competing projects which intend to use them for commercial profit. I don’t know about you, but if I am going to donate my computer time, I want it to be for something that will freely benefit all of us, not some greedy company.

A recent cpu such as an Athlon XP or P4 can “fold” several hundred thousand structures every 24 hours. Seeing the numbers rack up on the stats pages is an immediately satisfying feeling.

Individuals can join teams to battle with other groups for position.

The Genome Collective is a website dedicated to one of the teams within DF. It also has a team running Genome @ Home and is #3 in the world. The DF team is #16 and would love to have any and all contributions to the cause.

Please take a look at Distributed Folding and come visit The Genome Collective

 

We could post a challenge to Altimas.net

 

my computer is pretty quick but i am not sure how to do this
I am running a
AMD ATHLON 1.53
512 ram
Radeon 8500 video card
40 gb
Cable modem

now what would i have to do to enter this racE?

 

I am running a
Pentium 133
64mb ram
Diamond S3 video card
2 gig hard drive
14.4 Modem

and i will still kick yoru ****

 

wow thats alot of ram for that processor..

 

Oh yeah well I'm running a ...
1.6gig Intel "Celeron"(wooho)
256ram
40gig HD
and
DSl
And I'll kick all yo' azzes Muhahaha....ok ok I won't.
This should be fun if I finally understand what your talking about.Oh hold On I get it; it's like a "race against cancer" or something like that,right? Cool I just downloaded the software.

 

sorry typo.. i meant 64k

 

If officers arrive at my door asking questions, im coming for you

 

ha ha ha mine is like a tt supra compared to your Kia elantra

 

yeah but you can't drive it and my Kia gets hole shots from the light like crazy.. while you stalled at the light.. i had a hole shot and shut down at 40 mph with my hazards on

 

I'm sure that kia doesnt make an elantra..but maybe that proves really how bad his pc is...haha

 

hm, too bad it's not SETI@HOME or else I got like 400 work units for the team. Maybe I'll start Folding now with my super charged Athlon 1600+ @ 2200+

 

I used to do seti and was in the 700's for my place which is pretty good considering it had almost 3 million people. It's pretty sad when you have 50 computers running it and people are passing you.

Quick explanation. If we can understand how different proteins fold properly, we can possibly develop new drugs to target various diseases.

This is basically what the project is trying to do. It's not for profit and will make all findings public for the world to see.

Sign up here:
http://www.distributedfolding.org/login.html

After signing up go back to that link and login. Once in you can pick your team that you want to be on. It get's very addictive seeing your numbers climb and passing other teams.

Download the client here:
http://www.distributedfolding.org/Download.html
choose the text client protein builder (2nd one down 2nd row over)


You download the zip file. Unzip it wherever, say c: It will create a folder under your c: named distribfold.

Go into this folder and double click on the foldit.bat file. It'll ask you for your handle which was emailed to you and then you can just accept the defaults if you wish. Most of the questions are explained when you start the foldit.bat file. After you answer the 5 or so questions, close the dos box and double click on the foldit.bat file again and your on your way. Sounds difficult, but it's very easy.

Do we want to join my current team at www.thegenomecollective.com or do we want to start a maxima.org team? Warning: In order to be competative we need alot of people. There are alot of teams with huge message boards full of people, but we can compete if we get alot of people here to join. Otherwise it's probably better to join www.thegenomecollective.org.

You can check our teams progress here:
http://www.statsman.org/distfoldingstats/

 

Whats your team number so I can join you bro.

 

When you go into the high flyers section you'll see a drop down where you can choose your team. Just choose The Genome Collective unless you think maxima.org can make a run at being competative with the bigger teams. If so, I'll start a team called whatever we decide.

 

Here's the link to thegenomecollectives forums.

http://www.thegenomecollective.com/forum/

 

I'm doing folding@home, is this the same program or a different one?

Already in the icrontic team though

 

No it's not folding@home. I started f@h and was in 14th place for a long time, then I switched to Genome@home. thegenomecollective is currently in 3rd place with genome. It feels good since I was a major part of the TGC's start. I kinda got fed up with f@h and g@h because Stanford wasn't fixing problems and they don't let us know what's going on with the data. Distributed Folding fixes problems immediately and always lets us know what progress the project is making. All of them are very good projects though.

 

hey guys, i started a team called maximaORG

I just started last night, but i've got about 35000 structures for it already, join up everyone. it is actually kind of fun.

 

It's extremely addictive once you see your numbers starting to go up. Then you mod your computer to go faster and handle better. Then you decide a fully loaded civic just isn't enough and a couple ferarri's pop up I have around 50 million structures. When my daughter was born 5 months ago I sold 5 computers because I just didn't have the time and was more interested in my Max. The little break has my interest back. With as many people as we have on this board we could rock.

 

We could have some fun interteam competition as well by putting your gen behind your username like: Virus5thgen/Virus2k2/Virus99, etc.

 

i have a 386 DX. 2mb ram, 80mb harddrive.........but i USE a 1.2Ghz athlon running @ 1.53Ghz, 40 gig HD, ati radeon DDR and 256mb DDR ram

 

thats all very nice, but I know something you dont have, and that leads me to my next question...

 

The computers that I got rid of were a Duron 700@1ghz, 2 1.2@1.5 Athlons, PIII 500@804 and Celeron 566@850. I still have a Athlon XP1700 running at 1.53ghz. I can add some work computers as well since the program has nice firewall support.

 

Well, sorry guys, i dumped the maximaORG team cuz no one was joining and started a team between my fraternity. maybe if y'all get a big team, i might come back...

 

Why not join my current team The Genome Collective. We're in 12th place currently and we need help as other teams are gaining.

 

i have a 333 mhz 61 mb ram 6 gb harddrive 56 K
will it work on my computer?
after reading over and over, i still dont get what this is about too.

moding your computer? molding, folding proteins? civic ferrari's??

plz, im in no clue????

 

ya im down, but i really dont know whats it about ....ill read into it later...

but im on a
athlon xp 1.6 @ 2.1 (loud as a b!tch tho)
40 gig HD
gf 3 ti 200 (clocked well past ti 500 speeds)
512 ddr