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i was wondering if anybody would be willing to start up a folding team for HDR. ill suply a link of the basics of what folding is *everyone egnore the mentions of "ocn" and team 37726* http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net-folding-home-team/67463-folding-faq-everything-you-need-know.html

i would think it a great way to put your home pc's idle time to work.

everyone fold for the cure!

I do this with my PS3. It's quite cool.

I think it's a great way to waste energy by letting your computer work hard while you're not using it.

And when you aren't idling, it drains your computer's responsiveness. That's why I vote against it.

- Using your computer: don't use Folding@Home
- Not using your computer: turn the damn thing off for a change!

If and when I get my PS3, I am definitely going to activate the folding program. My laptop has been running slower recently, so I don't exactly need something that would slow it down even more. You should be able to shut it down for when you don't want to idle, and vice versa.

it all depends on what you set the priority at. if you have it on idle you wouldent even notice a difrence in responsiveness. set it higher thou you will. and in response to turning off.. do as you wish as long as a couple wu's get done, every work unit helps. i didnt expect people to start buying like six quad core computers and power fold 24/7.

its not about the points. fold for the cure.

I'd be happy to do this with one of the desktop Macs that the kids only use sporadically, yet leave idling the rest of the time. My Dad died of Huntington's Disease, and at least one of my brothers will suffer the same fate, so any research into neurological conditions is a welcome thing in my book.

ill look into creating a team. if anybody else is interested.

wow its increadably easy to do so. just enter a name make a pasword and pervide a email adress and its done. o.o

fold for the cure!

I was using it some time ago, but my 600Mhz Duron had hard time with it. I'll check how it works with my new dual core.

run smp on your duo it utilzes both cores *best on a quad tho*

so is anybody interested in me creating the team? this way people get credit for folding for HDR

i don't understand... whats folding? aside from sheets

gozu wrote:i don't understand... whats folding? aside from sheets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldingathome

Wikipedia is your friend

Shame there isn't GPU version for nvidia yet. Lotsa GFLOPs lost on geforce users - probably cheapest 8400GS would calculate such stuff faster than quad core CPU.

i know its kinda weird but now their is a gpu compatable with the 3000 series amd cards just imagine the work geting done on those 3870x2's

BrunoN wrote:Shame there isn't GPU version for nvidia yet. Lotsa GFLOPs lost on geforce users - probably cheapest 8400GS would calculate such stuff faster than quad core CPU.

GPU's are only faster at specific tasks, for most jobs CPU's are faster (why would we have those in our computer if GPU's are always faster?). The FAH software for GPU's does different calculations from the normal software; it does the stuff that GPU's are optimized for.

But yes, it does provide a bucketload of extra resources. As does the Playstation 3 FAH software.

Biert wrote:GPU's are only faster at specific tasks, for most jobs CPU's are faster (why would we have those in our computer if GPU's are always faster?). The FAH software for GPU's does different calculations from the normal software; it does the stuff that GPU's are optimized for.

But yes, it does provide a bucketload of extra resources. As does the Playstation 3 FAH software.

Sure they probably couldn't be used for everything, but they're basically pimped up FPUs with own, very fast memory, and you can do lots of stuff with that. And lots of experiments show how powerful these processors are, there are password cracking applications, physical simulations, ray tracers, ATI even did sound processing on GPU to show off their API. So it's bit shit FAH they didn't broaden their GPU usage on Nvidias - though probably there's some important reason why they didn't do it, maybe Nvidia's CUDA is crap, or something.