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posted by martyb on Saturday August 27 2016, @03:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the Can-we-make-the-Top-400-by-Halloween? dept.

It has only been six short months since SoylentNews' Folding@Home team was founded, and we've made a major milestone: our team is now one of the top 500 teams in the world! We've already surpassed some heavy hitters like /. and several universities, including MIT. (But now is not the time to rest on our laurels. A certain Redmond-based software producer currently occupies #442.)

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 and thereby help to find a cure. To that end, SoylentNews' team has completed nearly 16,000 work units.

If you'd like to contribute to our team by donating some spare CPU/GPU cycles, you can get started here. There are clients available for Linux, Windows, and OSX. Once you have installed the software, enter the TeamID 230319 to join us.

Feel free to join #folding on our IRC channel if you need any help, or just want to chat.

Thank you to all that have participated, and a special thanks to our top 10 folders:

  1. cmn32480
  2. Runaway1956
  3. Beldin65
  4. tibman
  5. LTKKane
  6. EricAlbers_ericalbers_com
  7. Kymation
  8. meisterister
  9. kurenai.tsubasa
  10. NotSanguine

Related Links:
http://folding.stanford.edu
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=230319


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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday August 27 2016, @09:58PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 27 2016, @09:58PM (#394048) Journal
    Well there was FAH in FreeBSD in 2005, and in 2010. I'd be very surprised if it is not possible now, but as I am in bed and about to go to sleep, it will have to wait until tomorrow....
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @10:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 27 2016, @10:48PM (#394054)

    They have an old client, 5.0.4 in the ports tree; but, they are somewhere in the 7 version now. There are some ways to get Linux binaries to run on FreeBSD but if FAH were open source, then someone would have probably updated the ports tree so it worked out of the box. They probably think that not releasing the source prevents cheating or competitors from stealing. However, that is very naive thinking.