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Dec 28, 2003, 04:43 PM
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Watching
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: The void
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Folding...
Can anyone please explain to me what folding is?
I'm curious...
What is it for?
How do you participate?
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Dec 28, 2003, 09:13 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Australia
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check out www.rage3d.com they have alot of info about it there
hope that helps you out  |
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Dec 28, 2003, 09:28 PM
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Seen my brain?
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: WA,USA
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I always fold, it's just like SETI except it works for something usfull. Attempting to find a cure for uncured diseases.
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Dec 29, 2003, 02:27 AM
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Banned
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Gurnee Illinois
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I've been folding for about 1.25 years now. I fold for Extreme Overclocking forums.
Basically, it's just a small program that runs in the background and uses all unused CPU cycles. Basically it crunches some numbers and molecules and crap like that. F@H is gonna eventually help to possibly find cures to some cancer and things of the such.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ |
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Dec 29, 2003, 02:33 AM
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VETUS INFLATIO
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Red Lodge UK
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yep, been doing it since it first came out...very very useful for some folks..got if from rage 3ds site
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Dec 29, 2003, 04:04 AM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: alberta, canada (thats north of the usa people)
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folding is distributed computing but stanford to help cure desiese.. it uses you spare cpu time to analyze dns and such.. it'll give you a great view of your full load temps (folding for rage3d) |
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Dec 29, 2003, 05:56 AM
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Watching
Join Date: Feb 2003
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oh right... I might give it a go then... seems to be for a worthy cause
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Dec 29, 2003, 10:51 AM
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: In clothing
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I have been folding for a year or so now, but I keep forgetting my account so I need to make a new one almost every reformat....
On this account I have 197 WUs done.
Folding for overclockers.com, team 32
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Dec 29, 2003, 11:17 AM
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Flash Banner Hater
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: UK
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http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/curecancer.html
The United Devices Agent is a similar system - Original target was (and still is) cancer research, but during the Gulf War runup, they were also looking at anthrax - amid anger from those seeing that as war-related research, they introduced an opt-out from that part of the workload.
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