The NZA Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 PS3 - Folding@home - its a cool concept: Stanford University is linking PS3s on a network to crunch numbers for them, while said systems arent in use, to run scenarios of folding proteins, a system they think might yield/accelearate research into curing alzheimers and various other diseases. Its not an unprecedented idea, and there's slight controversy about the amout of power/wattage used, but most figures show the PS3 computing from 10-20x faster than your average PC, which is indeed impressive. Given the current lack of much software, personally, i think it makes sense to use the system for something like this if its not in active use much anyway, and again, its for a great cause. I personally plan to help where i can when i get one. How it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 I'm still pretty excited about getting a PS3 and joining this project, myself. In case youre wondering, here is how much itll cost you to leave it running, going on each state's charges...$15/month for FL, not too bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 So... So the o/s is gonna cost? Is that the equivalent of a gold subscription on Live? 'Cause even so that's pretty fucking exxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted April 4, 2007 Author Share Posted April 4, 2007 wait...what OS costs? I read the PS3 has its own but you can install linux, all that should be free. I meant, if you leave your system online 24/7 when youre not playing it just to run this program in standby mode, that's the cost youd spend per month in extra electricity charges, 's all. some people're concerned about the system's wear and tear, i guess thats valid but i only burnt out a ps1 after crazy years and never saw a ps2 die so im not as concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Ahhh. So you don't have to subscribe to the new Sony 'Home' system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted April 4, 2007 Author Share Posted April 4, 2007 home is their network itself, its where all that sims shit i showed before is supposed to go down in october...this program, the protein folding thing, its optional with the latest update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishopcruz Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 I've been hearing talk that MS is going to be doing something similar with another folding research group, can't find the article at the moment though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltd0wn Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 ive been using my pc for folding from time to time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Fuck is all this folding shit you kids are on about? Who even does laundry in this day and age? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltd0wn Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 folding is where you use your idle cpu time to do mathamatical equasions for science (In laymans terms) The below is taken from the O.C.A.U forums all credit to them Folding@Home is a program that Stanford university is running to help them research protein folding related diseases. These include some types of cancer and Alzheimers disease. It only uses idle CPU cycles, so if any other program needs to use the CPU, it lets it. Most people won't notice the program running at all. It works like this: you download the client on to your computer and run it. The client downloads something called a "Work Unit". This is the simulation that will be carried out. Computer crunches the WU. When done, it sends the WU back to Stanford and downloads the next WU. That's pretty much it. You get points for every WU you send back as an incentive to keep folding, and you can join or create teams for fun. If you want more info, http://www.overclockers.com.au/folding/join.htm http://folding.stanford.edu/ these are aussie deals im sure there is something the same in the states Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltd0wn Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 also see http://folding.stanford.edu/console-userguide.html http://folding.stanford.edu/winstructions.html http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html i suggest trying it out lets help them help us in the future. Ill even setup a folding club in the near future i just have to do the setuo again i had to reformat the other day :( Everything here is from the O.C.A.U Forums and page you can visit the at www.overclockers.com.au Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jables Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Well that was helpful. See Nick? So bloody hard eh? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meltd0wn Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 the program itself is only small you start it then leave it that simple you dont need much more knowledge than that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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