Folding@Home: Team

[illegalprelude]

I have made a team for the new feature Folding@home. Folding@home is part of the new patch that came out today for the PS3. Join my team and we can all work together to find cures for diseases. My team number is 55259.

When you load Folding@home press the triangle.
a small menu will come up.
Click on your identity (or something like that. its one of the last options)
click on join a team.
put in 55259.

A Person I know already has many friends on this and I figured, if we are doing this on the forum, why not also jump on this team to help better calculate our resources.

[f1ipmode]

I Joined

[illegalprelude]

awesome

Mine has been done for an hour now but its been stuck on this thing "Getting Packet Data" and it wont even let me quit. DId my system freeze or does it do that?

[willpooted]

Just joined

[bear89103]

Ok I may have asked this before, but I don't think I really got a full answer. And I'm too tired and want to go to sleep soon, so I not gonna look it up and try to figure it out. But if someone could possibly tell me what is folding, and why is it such a huge thing, I'd REALLY appreciate it.

Thanks

[illegalprelude]

Originally Posted by bear89103

Ok I may have asked this before, but I don't think I really got a full answer. And I'm too tired and want to go to sleep soon, so I not gonna look it up and try to figure it out. But if someone could possibly tell me what is folding, and why is it such a huge thing, I'd REALLY appreciate it.

Thanks

yea, it links Super Computers and PS3's together and gets Data from Standford Univeristy and does number crunching for them in packets. Once its finished its calculations, it sends the data back and gets more work to do

[bear89103]

Originally Posted by illegalprelude

yea, it links Super Computers and PS3's together and gets Data from Standford Univeristy and does number crunching for them in packets. Once its finished its calculations, it sends the data back and gets more work to do

Wow that's pretty kick ass. I'm glad that an entertainment console can be used to help this cause. This is one instance that no matter PS3 or 360, Blu-Ray or HD DVD, we all should get involved.

Thanks guys for pointing me to this.

[illegalprelude]

Originally Posted by bear89103

Wow that's pretty kick ass. I'm glad that an entertainment console can be used to help this cause. This is one instance that no matter PS3 or 360, Blu-Ray or HD DVD, we all should get involved.

Thanks guys for pointing me to this.

exactly. This isnt a what stance do you have on what, do you hate MS or love Sony or what. Its just a great thing to do and it costs us nothing, so why not give something back to society. We never know, we might be the one who needs it in 10 years

[Merlins]

I'm a member of The Knights Who Say Ni! already, team 117 (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...ge&teamnum=117 and http://www.katrinashome.com/).

[hstewarth]

I let my PS3 do it last night and it job in about 8 hours, right now its doing another unit and by 7pm - it should do another.

The wierd thing is that I installed the PC Client on my Dual Xeon 5160 ( pretty much the fastest PC you can buy today ) and it indicates 104 days. I must be missing something or is the PS3 really that fast.

My PC is dual 3Ghz Woodcrest machine with 8G of memory, so I have 4 3Ghz core 2 base cores running 1333Mhz ram. There is nothing currently faster than it in the PC world. Maybe this summer when the 45nm are suppose to come out.

Whats up with team stuff - is it big deal.

[HarakoMeshi]

Originally Posted by bear89103

Ok I may have asked this before, but I don't think I really got a full answer. And I'm too tired and want to go to sleep soon, so I not gonna look it up and try to figure it out. But if someone could possibly tell me what is folding, and why is it such a huge thing, I'd REALLY appreciate it.

Thanks

They have a lot of information on the Folding@Home website.

Folding refers to protein folding. Proteins are long chains of amino acids that are the building blocks of life. Inside living cells, proteins are created using information encoded in DNA as a blueprint. DNA is like a chain of information that defines what amino acids to chain together to form proteins.

Once the protein chain is formed, its atomic structure causes it to assume a certain shape like assembling itself for the job its meant to do. This "assembly" is called folding, as the protein chain folds into its final shape. Depending on what amino acids are in the chain it will fold into a certain 3D shape. This folding happens very fast, like 1 millionth of a second.

So, in people there are tons and tons of blueprints for different proteins that are each designed for a certain job. A lot of serious diseases are related to some proteins not folding correctly (misfolding). If they misfold they don't do their job and results in disorders, mutation, clots, tumors, cancers, all that nasty stuff nobody ever wants to hear about .

Apparently there is one protein P53 that is the major cause of half of all cancers. This protein is like a watchdog that detects if the DNA in a cell got corrupted (mutated). If it detects that, it will signal the cell to die so that it won't misbehave - so it prevents cancer. If there is a disorder with this protein (misfolding) the bad cells will mutate and grow into cancer.

The goal of Folding @ Home is to simulate protein folding on proteins like P53 so they can understand why disorders happen, and possibly even make synthetic proteins that can be used to cure cancer in a person who has a P53 disorder.

Simulating 1 millisecond of folding can take 30 years on a single computer which is too long to wait for a result, so F@H is trying to use lots of computers around the world to speed this up so it will only take a matter of weeks each.

Use your PS3 to help cure cancers and other serious diseases. PS3 for P53 - this is karma

[hstewarth]

A little more details on Performance differences

PS3:

0.0656s/Frame - 500000 frames

Xeon

30s/frame - 5000 frames

Not sure what it means.

[hstewarth]

I guess this stuff shows off the real power of the Cell processor - I found this link in the smack down area and directly related to what I observer.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...?qtype=osstats

Basically currently 12% of cpus running Folding@home are PS3 and that 12% is doing 73% of computing power. I forsee PS3 being purchase in colleges for computing purposes.

[hstewarth]

Originally Posted by illegalprelude

A Person I know already has many friends on this and I figured, if we are doing this on the forum, why not also jump on this team to help better calculate our resources.

I will joined your team, with the statistic going, could you image all the PS3 joined in one team - it would be the top ten in no time.

[willpooted]

I think this Folding app on the PS3 is great