F@H Folding @ Home INFO

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This is the Basic Information you need to get started with Techimo's F@H team.

Originally Posted by F@H website

What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease?

Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

Originally Posted by F@H website

You can help by simply running a piece of software.

Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

A link to the F@H web site.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

A link to the Download Page.

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download

A link to a Stats page or so.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...type=teamstats
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...y.php?s=&t=111
http://kakaostats.com/tsum.php?t=111

Link to the FAQ

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ

Techimo's Team #

111

One mans method to running on multiple cores/cpus.

Originally Posted by engracio

What I do is create a folder name FAH1 and Fah2 since all of my boxes are multi core. I copy the fah504-console to the folders and double click on it. It then opens a dos box and start to configure the client. The important items you need to make sure is correct are your user name, the team number 111 and the machine id. The default is 1 up to 4. So on my e6300 I have machine id 1 and 2. Duplicate machine id on a box is bad. 1-4 only.