Folding@Home

[the_lone_wolf]

So, anyone out there use folding@home?

Just let it loose with my GPU, helping your fellow man and all that jazz...

http://folding.stanford.edu/

It's on my PS3 but i have yet to get to any kind of grips with it. It just confused me, i suppose i'll read into it.

I have no SPARE bandwidth whatsoever , I have unlimited usage and I max it out all the time downloading "specialist" movies , there is no time to help my fellow man <--------- walks off in a huff with toilet paper under one arm .

[northwind]

Have you seen those people with "folding farms"? They go out and actually buy extra GPUs and build spare PCs to fold unit units, end up spending thousands on hardware and run gigantic power loads all the time... DONATE THE MONEY TO A CANCER CHARITY YOU TOOLS.

I thought this was going to be a thread about men doing domestic chores I should have known better lol!

Come in looking for Lodger tips had you LOL ?

Originally Posted by xXBADGERXx

Come in looking for Lodger tips had you LOL ?

Pmsl, I can but dream eh?

Why oh why would men be doing domestic chores...........

There must be at least one woman per man in the world......











Puts on trainers and runs like hell

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by northwind

Have you seen those people with "folding farms"? They go out and actually buy extra GPUs and build spare PCs to fold unit units, end up spending thousands on hardware and run gigantic power loads all the time... DONATE THE MONEY TO A CANCER CHARITY YOU TOOLS.

it's their money to spend as they wish, granted it **might** be more cost effective to donate the money directly, but doing this is no worse than doing nothing

Originally Posted by xXBADGERXx

I have no SPARE bandwidth whatsoever , I have unlimited usage and I max it out all the time downloading "specialist" movies , there is no time to help my fellow man <--------- walks off in a huff with toilet paper under one arm .

it doesn't use bandwidth, not much anyway, it uses processor cycles you're not using to calculate problems that would take a super-computer years, by spreading the load over 100s of 1000s of PCs

[northwind]

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

it's their money to spend as they wish, granted it **might** be more cost effective to donate the money directly, but doing this is no worse than doing nothing

Yeah, but it's worse than doing something more sensible with it... I mean, the real explanation is that it gives people an excuse to nerd out, which is fine But I was reading Custom PC magazine today, and here's their review of the graphics card I use:

"Pros: Quiet, power efficient, runs most games well"
"Cons: Not good for Folding"

WTF? I have a nerdy obsessive expensive hobby, I just don't try and justify it by claiming I cure cancer. My mountain bike doesn't fight crime either Distributed computing's great, for using otherwise unwanted cycles but building inefficient distributed "farms" and running them at high cost doesn't make much sense at all.