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  Overclockers Australia What is Folding@Home.
Unfortunately, larger proteins fold slower and thus we need more computers to simulate their folding.
While the alpha helix folds in 100 nanoseconds, proteins just a little larger fold 100x slower (10 microseconds).
Try to unravel a fundamental issue in the "protein folding problem" (which itself lies at the heart of a huge amount of modern biomedical research): the fact that thousands of different sequences can all form the same three-dimensional structure.
www.overclockers.com.au /folding/aboutfah.htm   (1048 words)

  
 Folding At Home - The Basics
The Stanford Folding At Home project seeks to understand how this process of folding happens in order to better understand what goes wrong and this is where your computer comes in.
The goal of the Folding At Home project (known from now on as FAH) is to build computer simulations of folding patterns by the use of distributed computing.
When the algorithm is done simulating the way that tiny period of time in which the protein is folding, you have finished a Work Unit and that Work Unit is sent back to the Stanford servers to be combined with other Work Units in that same progression.
www.sudhian.com /index.php?/articles/show/297   (601 words)

  
 PROTEIN FOLDING - @home and @watson
He was talking about protein folding and we two stood there silent for a second marveling at the beauty of nature.
This self-assembly of proteins into specific 3-dimensional native structures is referred to as protein folding and is critical to the functioning of the proteins as enzymes or antibodies.
Understanding protein folding is important due to its applications in the field of biomedicine (drug design, Mad Cow disease cause, etc.,) and nanotechnology (self-assembly of nanomachines).
www.cs.berkeley.edu /~nmani/cs267/asst0.html   (1582 words)

  
 Electron Microscope Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Keep those who can't be home for the holidays in your thoughts as you enjoy your friends and family at this time of year.
Fold on everyone and thanks again to everyone who has donated their hard earned dollars to help me keep this site up and running and updating EM when needed.
Those of you who have written term papers in school probably have some idea of how much work writing a paper is. This type of writing requires a lot more and remember, they are writing about an active project they participate in while spending many, many hours working on the software.
home.comcast.net /~wxdude1/emsite   (5048 words)

  
 Folding@home - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Folding@home (also known as FAH) is a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics simulations.
A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report dated October 22, 2002 states that FAH distributed simulations of protein folding are demonstrably accurate.
The folding project is always looking to push the boundaries of technology too, provided that resulting increase in computing power is worth the initial investment.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Folding@home   (4316 words)

  
 MacAddict Forums / Which is "better" Folding at Home, or United Devices cancer project?
I originally started running Folding at Home on my Macs, just because I couldn't run the United Devices client.
Like if Folding@Home and the new Grid.org folding project are working on some of the same things.
At least Folding@Home supports more than just Windows, and has a good command line interface that's fairly easy to understand, and that can send back a work unit without retrieving a new one (useful when you're going to reinstall the OS or things like that).
www.macaddict.com /forums/post/910924   (375 words)

  
 Join the JetCityOrange Folding At Home team
Folding @ Home is a distributed computing project from Stanford University.
Folding At Home is available for Windows, Linux, and the Macintosh is used to simulate protein folding.
Folding At Home uses your spare computing cycles to simulate protein folding.
www.jetcityorange.com /Folding@Home   (236 words)

  
 PS3 FAQ
FAH has targeted the study of of protein folding and protein folding disease, and numerous scientific advances have come from the project.
With these computational advances, coupled with new simulation methodologies to harness the new techniques, we will be able to address questions previously considered impossible to tackle computationally, and make even greater impacts on our knowledge of folding and folding related diseases.
We can now run calcault ions which were first run on FAH in October of 2000 at about 200x to 500x speed increase -- a pretty amazing feat and something we're very excited about.
www.stanford.edu /group/pandegroup/folding/FAQ-PS3.html   (1845 words)

  
 Folding@home
I guess it remains to be seen if we can pull off MPI on FAH to the point where it works effortlessly, but so far Lin and OSX look pretty good, so we're close.
Please go to the folding community forum (http://foldingforum.org) and make a post with the jist of your idea and someone from the FAH development team will get in touch with you.
I wanted to thank everyone for their help to improve FAH clients and the FAH experience in general and hope we can work together to get the needed fixes in.
folding.typepad.com   (1403 words)

  
 Folding Proteins at Home: Computer Users Unlock Medical Miracles | Stanford Scientific Magazine
Unfortunately, these errors in protein folding are nearly impossible for other molecules to correct, just as it is extremely difficult to untangle a shoelace which has been knotted hundreds or thousands of times.
The distributed approach to the “folding problem” necessitated the formulation of complicated new computer algorithms to effectively share the calculations among hundreds of thousands of computers.
Most importantly, Pande’s group has successfully simulated the folding of several simple proteins, and their results were validated experimentally in the laboratory.
www.stanfordscientific.org /2008/06/07/folding-proteins-at-home-computer-users-unlock-medical-miracles   (1093 words)

  
 Folding@home - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Accurate simulations of laundry folding and misfolding enable homemakers to better understand crease patterns and their effect on clothing.
Folding@home does not rely on large laundromats for its laundry processing; instead, the primary contributors to the Folding@home project are many thousands of homemakers who have individual bags of laundry delivered to their homes along with folding instructions, much like the set of instructions to the right.
The homemaker folds the laundry according to the instructions, and sends it back to the project center for analysis.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Folding@home   (366 words)

  
 Folding@home - About
We have founded the project, developed methods for using distributed computing to study long timescale dynamics, pushed its application to protein folding, and wrote the client and server code for the Folding@home project.
We are grateful for all the work the Folding Community Forum (FCF) moderators have done to keep the FCF running smoothly and to directly help donors run Folding@home -- we are grateful to them all.
The molecule drawn is the current atomic configuration ("fold") of the protein being simulated on your computer and the pie chart the left shows the current progress on the work unit.
folding.stanford.edu /about.html   (1222 words)

  
 Overclock.net Folding@Home Team - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net
How to: Be sure my Folding Farm is 100% 24/7...
How to: Set up a folding farm with the minimu...
How to: Fold on a computer that is not connec...
www.overclock.net /overclock-net-folding-home-team   (283 words)

  
 Getting Started
We're now getting to one of the most important aspects of Folding at Home, and that is convincing you to leave your computer running 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Without doing so, Folding at Home will be stopped dead whenever it needs to access the Internet to send and receive data.
The official Folding at Home forum is located at http://forum.folding-community.org/.
www.katrinashome.com /KWSN_getting_started.htm   (2324 words)

  
 Team Mac OS X - Folding@home
This is what you need for folding on the Mac, whether you're a new folder or experienced.
The current version of the Folding Installer will install as many folding clients as you tell it to -- the ideal number is the number of CPU's on your machine.
Especially helpful when you want to fold on a machine that routinely runs software with "bumpy" CPU demands, like games or image/video editing.
teammacosx.homeunix.com /software.html   (850 words)

  
 Folding at Home   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When proteins fold into the wrong shape, diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's, ALS, Parkinson's, Huntington's and cystic fibrosis can result.
Understanding protein folding could lead to cures, and one day save the life of someone you know.
F@H is a Stanford University project that provides the massive computing power needed for folding research.
www40.brinkster.com /gagaman   (122 words)

  
 [boinc_dev] Scheduler and Folding at Home.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Previous message: [boinc_dev] Scheduler and Folding at Home.
If set it would cause a workunit to be worked on exculsively even if there is plenty of time before it's deadline, there are workunits with earlier deadlines (but not in deadline trouble) and it would start running as soon as it was downloaded.
I definately support this addition since otherwise folding at home will most likely never fully use the BOINC platform and will limit BOINC users to a small subset of their project.
www.ssl.berkeley.edu /pipermail/boinc_dev/2005-May/002344.html   (197 words)

  
 Folding @ Home Guide - Infopros Joint
These diseases happen in the human body when proteins become folded incorrectly, short circuiting as it were, to create something that should not be there.
At Infoprosjoint we fold for the future to find a cure so that our friends and loved ones can be brought back to full health.
FAH Community Forums Help if you have any really technical questions.
forums.infoprosjoint.net /showthread.php?t=6420   (776 words)

  
 Folding@Home Distributed Computing Team - Overclockers Club
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases.
By using the computer while the owner is away, the F@H client is able to study the proteins and folding related diseases.
Folding CD Generator - This is a nice trick.
www.overclockersclub.com /pages/folding   (433 words)

  
 FedoraForum.org - Fine until Folding at Home
At least until I tried to set it up so the Folding at Home program would run at startup.
I can see the Folding at Home program beginning, but then the system freezes trying to set up the swap space.
My method was created before gkrellfah and is still a good choice if you want to run Folding in the background at every boot.
www.fedoraforum.org /forum/printthread.php?t=46834   (387 words)

  
 Folding-community.org :: View topic - SMP boxes and MachineID - APOLOGIES TO ALL FOR THE COOKIE PROBLEMS WE HAD!!
I've always incremented machineid in the past for each instance of FAH running on a given machine.
FAH resides on an NFS mount so all my nodes have easy and consistent access to it.
I let the FAH generate all that other various files (machinedependent.dat, queue.dat, etc) itself.
forum.folding-community.org /viewtopic.php?t=7356&highlight=smp   (922 words)

  
 Folding at Home: Installguide for win 98
Use the brows button to navigate to the folder you created for folding (program files\fah).
If you want to fold for a team, enter also the teamnumber, if you don't fold for a team, you can leave this to 0.
Double click on the folding icon in the taskbar and you will see the folding@home screen.
www40.brinkster.com /gagaman/graphclienwin98.html   (254 words)

  
 Liveblog: PS3's Folding at Home is Coming
Folding at Home, the networked app that uses spare CPU cycles to do Alzheimers research, typically was done on the PC.
Problem is that the bandwidth usage of folding at home is exactly opposite the bandwidth capacity of home users.
Maybe folding at home can at least map naked avatars over the visuals of the molecule.
gizmodo.com /gadgets/home-entertainment/liveblog-ps3s-folding-at-home-is-coming-244491.php   (703 words)

  
 Folding-community.org :: View topic - Transfer WU to another machine for upload - APOLOGIES TO ALL FOR THE COOKIE ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When it's done folding, move it back to your machine so it can upload the finished work unit and download a new one.
Progress on the folding of each protein depends on the prompt return of results, and that means they do not want work sitting on your computer that somebody else could be working on.
Whenever that client is released, you'll be able to participate both in FAH and in selected other projects, and the BOINC client is specifically designed to fill a cache.
forum.folding-community.org /viewtopic.php?t=11698   (972 words)

  
 Folding@Home on Multithreaded Windows PCs - Guide - Short-Media
The goals of the Folding at Home project is to understand how proteins "fold" to gain insight into why these proteins sometimes "mis-fold" and develop into diseases such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease, to name a few.
In an ideal world, FAH would be multithreaded by nature and all we would need is a single instance of Folding@Home.
The short of it is that none of the instances will Fold and may cause “unpredictable behavior” which is a polite way of saying it will probably crash your computer.
www.short-media.com /review.php?r=293   (1752 words)

  
 Question about folding at home when I send in a wu I get a lot of file i/o errors - XtremeSystems Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The file system when I fold on either os system is fat 32 and I use eIII to monitor the folding lol oh well maybe I should move the folding on the ntfs drive and just forget about folding when using win98 but I like the idea of using only one folder for folding.
My other system is also running folding and its running win98se and I dont get the errors on that system either lol.
Just looking for a cause to the errors dude been having the errors for awhile I tried to putting the folding folder in a ntfs drive and it wouldn't fold at all it just sat there.
www.xtremesystems.org /forums/showthread.php?t=19895   (790 words)

  
 At Home : Folding Clothes : Home & Garden Television
Fold clothes using the kitchen table instead of the floor.
To avoid folding towels twice, fold in the same manner that they hang.
To fold sweaters and T-shirts, lay the item flat on a table with the back facing up, then fold the arms across the back, pulling a small part of the body with it.
www.hgtv.com /hgtv/at_home/article/0,1801,HGTV_3221_1382127,00.html   (328 words)

  
 Home Theater PC News > Folding at Home
Proteins are "nanomachines" that assemble themselves (or fold) before carrying out their biochemical functions.
The process of protein folding, critical to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery.
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project using novel computational methods which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases.
htpcnews.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t380.html   (209 words)

  
 Folding at Home GUI vs Console - Dev Hardware
Folding at Home GUI vs Console Dev Folding forum for discussing Dev Hardware’s folding@home team.
You need to remember that FAH isnt using 100% of ypur procession power..say you going photoshop and surfing the net that takes 56% the left over is what is used.
There is a benchmarking thread with and without FAH to see what it goes...thats a good read.
www.devhardware.com /forums/dev-folding-29/folding-at-home-gui-vs-console-105453.html   (1089 words)

  
 Check Out
If you are already familiar with SETI at Home (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) for Macs and peecees you are in familiar territory.
The PS3 is the most widely used processor in the folding network at present.
You can track the number of folds you have completed and even join teams.
checkoutblog.com /entries/2008/2/13/folding_at_home.aspx   (503 words)

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