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Official Soylent News Folding@Home Team

posted by cmn32480 on Friday February 12 2016, @04:34PM   
from the oragami-it-ain't dept.

Sir Finkus writes:

I've taken the liberty of setting up an official folding@home team for Soylent News. In case you aren't familiar with folding@home, it's a distributed computing project that simulates protein folding in an attempt to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's.

There is more information on the project here, which explains it much better than I could.

Clients are available for Linux, OSX, and even Windows (if you swing that way), so come join our botnet!

That Other Site's team is ranked at 1817, so we've got some catching up to do.

On a personal note, my Dad carries the gene markers for Huntington's disease, and will eventually succumb to it. Research like this is very helpful for understanding, and hopefully developing treatments for it.

tl;dr Our Soylent News team ID is 230319

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Original Submission

• There's more than just folding There's more than just folding (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @05:09PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @05:09PM (#303306)

  So many people focus on a couple of these projects - folding@home and SETI@home. There are others that deserve to be supported and, in the case of the science fiction of SETI, more deserving of support.

  worldcommunitygrid.org (horrible web site - sorry) is one source of projects that you can support. They use BOINC software, which is open source.

• Re:There's more than just folding Re:There's more than just folding (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @06:37PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @06:37PM (#303343)

  I've been doing seti@home since it came out in 1999. Not about to switch projects with this many years into it. When there's no work, I let boink do einstein@home.

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  • Re:There's more than just folding Re:There's more than just folding (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @08:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 12 2016, @08:03PM (#303381)

    Ah yes... The early days of seti@home when we overclocked our single core processor and set ice cube trays next to the ventilation holes on the computer case. And ran it on a ramdrive to save wear and tear on the hard drive.

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    • Re:There's more than just folding Re:There's more than just folding (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday February 13 2016, @05:34AM

      by mhajicek (51) on Saturday February 13 2016, @05:34AM (#303568)

      Yeah, I figure if I wait another decade and then run it for ten minutes it will make up for my not running it this year.

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      The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek

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      • Re:There's more than just folding (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @07:57AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @07:57AM (#303588)

        It's like buying a new computer, it's always a bad time to do it...

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• Re:There's more than just folding (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @07:55AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2016, @07:55AM (#303587)

  Just note that while BOINC is open source, it's only a middleware: most of the actual projects that run on it are proprietary... :-/

  Caveat emptor.

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