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lite_sleepr
Jun 3, 2003

by Radio Games Forum
Remember donating your spare CPU cycles to Stanford's protein folding program? That was the cool thing to do in the early 2000's.

Is anyone still doing it for team SA?

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tiaz
Jul 1, 2004

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Zelensky's Zealots
Yeah, though anyone contributing with a gpu is wildly outperforming me. Go little arm sbc go!

a dmc delorean
Jul 2, 2006

Live the dream
You can "mine" "meme currency" "Banano" with folding @ home so I'm guessing it's had a recent resurgence?

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
i had it installed on some work servers and left them there when i quit

dunno if they're still cranking or not

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



ASK ME ABOUT
BEING
ESCULA GRIND'S
#1 SIMP

Cancer still exists wtf! :mad:

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
huh, i swear i thought cancer was over. covid is the new thing right?

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
the cubans invented a vaccine that protects vs some lung cancers

main problem with cancer is there's not just one kind it's like 10,000,000 diseases all with the same name

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

my GPU is mining ETH you idiot

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

we found aliens and stopped, what tyool are you living in

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
100 PS3’s running F@H 24/7 since 2006 $25000

Someone good at the economy please help my family is dying

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Nah all the disgusting computer nerds now mine cryptocurrency lmao

tiaz
Jul 1, 2004

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Zelensky's Zealots

Chinatown posted:

huh, i swear i thought cancer was over. covid is the new thing right?

it is and many WUs over the past year have been relevant to covid research

turns out protein is in more things than just cancer. much to think about

Dumb Sex-Parrot
Dec 25, 2020
I used to but my computer started randomly restarting when doing it a few years ago, so I haven't done much lately.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
shouldn't computers have doubled in power like 15x since folding at home started. what happened to moors law, this folding poo poo should be easy to solve on our ultra 5000ghz PCs

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Moore's law hasn't been true for a while now I think lol

Not that it ever was an actual law and not a number of coincidences

lite_sleepr
Jun 3, 2003

by Radio Games Forum

Rutibex posted:

shouldn't computers have doubled in power like 15x since folding at home started. what happened to moors law, this folding poo poo should be easy to solve on our ultra 5000ghz PCs

I'm going to install F@H on my samsung smart fridge

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



ASK ME ABOUT
BEING
ESCULA GRIND'S
#1 SIMP

I run a diesel generator so I can fold proteins for cancer.

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

Foldeez@Home

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

lite_sleepr posted:

I'm going to install F@H on my samsung smart fridge

Honestly if you have to have a smart appliance sideloading something useful to monopolize the bullshit is worth doing

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

OP i do still fold my laundry

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

no I finished folding it sorry

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

Rutibex posted:

shouldn't computers have doubled in power like 15x since folding at home started. what happened to moors law, this folding poo poo should be easy to solve on our ultra 5000ghz PCs

They did all the easy stuff first.

Katamari Democracy
Jan 19, 2010

Guess what! :love:
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Wedge Regret
I used Folding@home on my PS3 for years until they shitcanned it.

Its been out for a long time but has anything come out of it yet?

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Katamari Democracy posted:

I used Folding@home on my PS3 for years until they shitcanned it.

Its been out for a long time but has anything come out of it yet?

popularizing distributed computing could count as a thing...given, y'know, everything.

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



Katamari Democracy posted:

I used Folding@home on my PS3 for years until they shitcanned it.

Its been out for a long time but has anything come out of it yet?

Yes, they switched gears to covid research early last year and did a ton of modeling of the spike protein that produced important papers last year. There was a big surge in interest w/ everyone home from work and for a little while last year it was the most powerful supercomputer on earth. I jumped in for a few weeks w/ my 2070 and now I'm beating almost every goon who ever mined for team 150 back in the day.

Hasturtium
May 19, 2020

And that year, for his birthday, he got six pink ping pong balls in a little pink backpack.
I still throw work units to SA’s Einstein@Home team, though in the past few months I’ve changed my desktops around and haven’t done it as much. Hopefully I’ll get back into the swing of it soon.

Hell Yeah
Dec 25, 2012

there's a guy in the costco thread who is running folding@home out of like 30 chest freezers in his basement it's just all protein folding

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beer gas canister
Oct 30, 2007

shmups are da best come play some shmups they're cheap and good and you like them
Plaster Town Cop
Yep been crunching numbers for COVID since spring 2020 with Team SA. 12 million points or something now :confuoot:

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