[Multiplatform] Official Folding@HOME thread

Want to join the GFF Team and work on the project together?
The following are the details needed to contribute to the GFF Team.

General Info
Team: GamingForceForums
Team #: 55313
Founder: ChaosLegionaire
Team Profile: Click Here

Just enter in the team # and there you go, contribute away.

PC Users
For thoes who want to help the cause with your PC you can download the required program HERE

Whether you're on a PS3 or a PC you can still help the GFF Team out by punching in the associated team # found above.

Project Details:

Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases

What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.

Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

NEWS Updates

03/24/2007 NEW! Folding@HOME Video Coverage
A new interview has been put up over at GameVideos.com with fairly detailed coverage as to how the project works.
WARNING! Large and complex words & descriptions lie ahead.
Video Interview

03/23/2007 PS3 launch early results
With the PS3 launch, we've added a lot of CPU power to Folding@Home, with the total FLOPS now greatly increased an on its way to a Petaflop. Also, we've gotten a lot of crossover interest in the other Folding@Home clients (Win, Lin, OSX; SMP; and GPU), which is also wonderful.

Finally, due to all the interest, our web pages are getting hit very severely. We have been working to improve this, especially with the understanding that more PS3's could be on the way. So far, the performance is still pretty snappy, but we've made changes to make the process run more smoothly. First, we now allow the stats update script exclusive access to the db during updates. This speeds updates, but limits what donors can do during the update period to see their stats. We have also done several changes to improve caching of the stats data to improve overall performance. We are also working to get additional hardware to help out.

With these changes, we should be ready for a lot more clients!


Cool Facts


1.2% the amount of PS3s working on the project compared to PCs however the small number of about 20,000 PS3s have processed 282% the amount of information in two days of that of the PCs. Seems that the colaberation with Sony was a great move for them. ^^

Project Results

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The yellow spots are supposed to be currently active folders while the white lights are just part of the satllight image.

Also I've got the profile page for the team set up now so when it get's back you should be able to check out all that good stuff. Aswell I've got the GFF banner in there too make us look all official and all ^^

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I don't think there is an outside source other then the PS3's V1.6 update itself. So if it wasn't included in that then you're probably just going to have to wait for future updates to include it unfortunatly.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

heh heh, well we all make thoes mistakes, or at least I know that I do

Nice to have you on board hikarub. ^^

Also it's great to see all the work we've managed to get done with our small team in just four days. 12 work units completed, way to go everyone.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

It depends. I wouldn't reccomend it if you don't have someone to keep somewhat of an eye on it, checking things a couple times a day. I only say this because while there's no rep of the system overheating (other then the odd lemon) we don't really know what it can handle yet, and for $600 the risk may be too large for the reward.

When I leave mine on, it's a non-heated room that is only heated when I'm in that room, which is when I'm playing games so with the lack of heat in the room I don't worry too much about it's safety. Ultimatly though it is up to you in the end.

How ya doing, buddy?

Well we could if we could either send PMs to thoes contributors or to Bobo and the other dude to see if they'd promote this one instead. However all the work's going to the same place in the end, so if one of you guys don't mind sending the messages or what have you then by all means. If you feel like I do, then just sit back and let your PS3 be the only one working hard around ya.

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Good to see people still joining the prjects.

It's also great to see thoes still contributing to the project. Great work everyone ^^

I myself have had a major issue with the program which started many months ago. My program folds a package of information, and then when it goes to upload it to the server my system freezes. Not sure what to do. Probably going to have to delete and re-download & install the program I guess. With luck that's all it'll take to get it up and running again.

I'm going to update the first post of the thread soon with news updates and information. So keep an eye out for new details.

How ya doing, buddy?

Yes there are people here who still help with the project when they can.

I myself am still working on getting mine working again... stupid thing.

If you want to join just input the GFF group number that can be found on post one of this thread, then all your stats will contribute to the team. ^^

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?