Thread: Folding@home - The T-I Team

Hello fellow T-I Members,

Source - http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Main

The following details are for the TI Folding@home team. Feel free to join, it costs nothing and gives much back to the medical community. To join, you must download and install a small program. The four main types are a) CPU, B) SMP C) GPU and D) PS3. This is discussed more at the bottom of this post.

Please Use your T-I Username (NOT YOUR USERNAME ON ANY TRACKER)

Team Details:
Team Name: Torrent-Invites
Team Number: 176029
Team Page: Folding@Home



Torrent-Invite Team Stats:



The link to add this to your signature is:

Code:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php?t=176029

For further customising of the signature, go to http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/?nav=IMAGES. When we get below the rank of 800 (ie: between the rank of 1 and 800), The site will begin auto-generating individual Signatures as well, not just team signatures.

Brief Explanation of What Folding@Home is:
Basically, the Stanford University is studying how proteins "fold" (develop) in order to cure a number of diseases and illnesses.

In order to do this, they have to do many computations, of which would take years for even all the worlds supercomputers combined. It is actually faster to use a super cluster (many normal computers around the world, doing small workloads each) to do this work.

What do you do:
You download the folding@home program (its quite small) and install it. It then will run a cycle

A) connect to the net, download a work packet
B) disconnect from the net, work on the work packet (this may take hours or days to complete)
c) connect to the net, upload the results

Effects on your computer:
I would like to emphasise that you do not notice this software running in the background. It defaults to minimum CPU priority (meaning that if you want to do something on your computer, Folding@Home will slow down in order to give you all the computing power you want)

Furthermore, The Data packets sent to and from your computer is quite small, and I personally have never noticed when they send the data. If you wish, there is a setting that will make it ask for permission prior to attempting to access the network.

Client Types
There are Four main types of client you can download and install
a) CPU client - Most common client, works with all computers, uses the CPU (the "brain" of the computer) to do calculations. Also is the slowest client.
b) SMP client - Works with all Multi-Processor Computers. (ie, dual core, quad core computers). Is faster than the CPU Client.
c) GPU client - Only works with supported Graphics Cards. It uses the GPU (the "brain" of the Graphics Card) to do calculations. It is much faster than the CPU Client. I have heard that It does affect graphics performance, such as watching movies, playing games etc, whilst the client is running.
d) PS3 client - Only works on PS3's, You Cannot utilise the PS3 for any other purpose whilst running this software.

Any questions?
If you have any further questions, there is plenty of information in the FAQ

WAHEY time for the pirates to give back something that isn't to the trackers.

I'll be setting this up tomorrow as soon as I get back from my leccys.


Are we going to be getting a T-I bouns system going as well?

Joined. I've been running F@H for a while now, its cool to be part of a team.

Ok, this is very much a worth while cause, it costs you nothing to participate but the rewards could be immense not only for the medical community but for you guys also check here http://www.torrent-invites.com/sugge...tml#post437917. I have been doing this for quite a few years and I have participated in several projects. So what do you have to loose? Nothing, but everything to gain, if the incentive idea goes forward then you gain there, but just a little food for thought - this stuff helps with finding cures - one day you may need it.

Additional info: This will NOT slow your machine, it runs when your PC is in idle mode i.e when you are not using it, it will also auto update/upload/download. The way it works is by downloading packets of information. The information is then 'crunched' and when finished sent back to the server (its automated). Once the server receives the info, a super computer does some more calculations and if you are lucky you have just contributed to a cure, if not then hey keep going, the cycle continues. For your info, a break through in Pulmonary Fibrosis has been found this way.

Software link: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
(Please do not try using FF or opera to download, it didn't work - chrome, Wyzo and I.E worked)

There is no offense meant by this post, and I apologise if it does.

That link doesnt work for me TankGirl. It gives me a forbidden 403 error and says the website declined to show the page.

Originally Posted by JustJenna

That link doesnt work for me TankGirl. It gives me a forbidden 403 error and says the website declined to show the page.

It worked for me, however when I was writing the OP I was getting weird errors like that... I thought it might have been Peerblock, but disabling that didn't seem to help.

Might just be having some problems with their servers, I also received another error today explaining they have too many people logging on and to try again later.

I've just downloaded and installed the program... I'm at the Team allready???

I'm in. Let's see what this is about. I have never done this before, so...

How long does it usually take to get a packet? Just wondering.

Joined up today. Thanks for helping me to put my wasted CPU cycles to good use. :)