Folding

[Woofna 0]

Just curious ... does anyone else here fold? All my old computers, when they are replaced, go to my "graveyard" and run 24/7 in my room folding. Currently, there's two Pentium 3 machines and one Pentium 4 machine folding, and of course my new machine (Athlon x2 5200+ 2.6ghz, 2gb RAM, GeForce 8800GTS) that I built a week ago is folding with both cores whenever it's on, which is most of the time. I fold for overclock.net's team. Does CNCNZ have a team? Should we?

[F15pilotX 4]

folding=?

 

I couldn't understand the wiki definition

[Woofna 0]

Wikipedia has no definition on it.

 

Folding =

http://folding.stanford.edu/

[Luk3us 63]

Oh its one of those things...

 

No I don't help out on those, not because I don't care, but because my computer can be put to better use, such as playing games as opposed to helping some random disease.

[Woofna 0]

The folding client I uses whatever of your CPU is not being used. It's always on (The folding client) whether I am gaming, on the internet, typing, or leaving the computer on to play music or download, or if my comp's doing nothing. It doesn't slow me down at all.

 

If I am using 89% of my CPU gaming, it uses the other 11%. If I am using 12% of my CPU on the internet, then it uses the other 88%. It just picks up the slack. Even on this old 512mb P4 Dell I'm using right now, my folding client NEVER slows me down a bit.

 

Can't wait for my new AMD machine to arrive. =D

[TheBlackOut 7]

And the client you use is...?

[Mighty BOB! 5]

I was thinking about folding, but it turns out my computer is almost always doing something.. so I ended up not..

[Sonic 296]

Its basically the same thing as SETI@Home.

 

I see no real advantage to have these things running.

[Mighty BOB! 5]

The advantage is speed. They can complete in months what might usually take 3 years with just the institution's resources.

[mormreed 0]

so what does folding do? does it just act like a big computer doing calculations?

[F15pilotX 4]

I might do it....

 

the only thing i don't understand is, aren't all the pcs doing the same thing, except some faster than others, or is each solving a different thing? (i.e. are they internet-updated)

[mormreed 0]

from what I read I got that all the PCs are linked together to do big equations except instead of building one big supercomputer they use a bunch of smaller computers to make a "pimped out rig"

[F15pilotX 4]

*downloads*.

[sith_wampa 6]

Communism is infecting the internet! These guys want the PEOPLE to give THEIR CPU to act as a supercomputer just because they are too poor to make their own? COMMIES I SAY!!!

[F15pilotX 4]

please tell me you're kidding

[sith_wampa 6]

Kidding? Just think about it for a minute. It may sound weird, but it is true, there is a good deal of socialist ideology in all of this.

[F15pilotX 4]

no, they're trying to help find cures for diseases :roll:

[blodnukl 0]

Did they miss the part where people buy extra RAM to make their computers do more?