Join our team please - Folding at Home

[UncasMS]

we are doing fine but i think for a forum of this size we could have a few people more joining in ^_~

[volfann]

wink wink nudge nudge.. say no more . say no more..

[photo_angel2004]

Some of you may already know "F@H" or "Folding at Home" others don't.

F@H uses distributed computing in order to find cures for diseases like:

* Alzheimer's Disease
* Cancer
* Huntington's Disease
* Osteogenesis Imperfecta
* Parkinson's Disease
* Ribosome & antibiotics


you can help finding cures by running a small tool on your machine(s) to calculate protein folding
(that's where Folding@Home comes from)

F@H is a project of Stanford University and you may compare it to Seti@Home, which is way more popular


I have set up a team for Digital Video Forums:



Here is the team page




What do you have to do in order to join?

Simply download a small application, run it on your computer (windows, linux, mac os - up 2 u) and type in OUR TEAM NUMBER when asked for a team:
51205


When you run the application you will be asked for a user name:
choose/type in any name you want - you dont have to register a nickname anywhere


Here is the F@H homepage for further information

And here is the download section where you will find the necessary software


Windows users are adviced to download the "No nonsense" text-only console
=> http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...04-Console.exe

- download this file to your pc
- run it
- choose a nickname
- type in our team number: 51205


and now let your machine run as much as you can/like


it will be for a good cause
it will test the reliability of your machine (new or old)
it will hopefully earn this forum some points for the team




thanx for joining in and happy folding

Sorry I came in so late on this as it was the first time i have seen this thread. I have downloaded and it seems to be running I am not real sure what it will do or wont do when its done though.



But if something like this can help find a way to cure Cancer count me in!
Not real sure If I have this configured right here is what I have now:

[UncasMS]

thanx for joining in, pa

and yes, it looks fine what we see except for one setting:
"launch automatically at machine startup => service"

this means each and every time you start your pc it will launch f@h no matter if you like it or not

when doing a video conversion for example i like to have all resources assigned to rebuilder/procoder but definitely not f@h

if you want to change this, let the current WU (work unit) complete and then delete your "client.cfg" which should store all these information (correct me if i'm wrong anyone) and restart the f@h exe and re-configure all the settings but answer NO for the auto-startup

[photo_angel2004]

@UncasMS,

I will take alook a that one this has finished (which seemsTo take a while)

[soup]

PA.

I think you can quit the program anytime, go in to your folder delete client- config & then when you start it back up it will lead you through the settings again & then start working.

[photo_angel2004]

I am also wondering if this will mess with my outlook 2003 pro

This appeared after running this:




Is this the file I need to delete?

[photo_angel2004]

Ok going through this again I have no idea how to configure this questions dont stop in the configureation and I dont know what any of them mean.
Is there something somewhere that can help with the configureation?

Thank you,

[soup]

Version 5.03 if anybody is interested.

I am sorry I haven't been at this long enough to help you out PA. On advice from somebody that has been doing this for a long time I moved to this version a while ago. I like it because I can right click the system tray icon & do things like configure, even quit the program to burn etc. The settings are pretty well default unless in connections you want larger work packages, you have to have the box checked. I kind of worked out a system probably stupid but I do smaller work during the week & then on Friday I go in to configure check the box & accept a larger work for the weekend. Before that's done I go back in to configure & uncheck the box then carry on.

[photo_angel2004]

I am sorry I haven't been at this long enough to help you out PA. On advice from somebody that has been doing this for a long time I moved to this version a while ago. I like it because I can right click the system tray icon & do things like configure, even quit the program to burn etc. The settings are pretty well default unless in connections you want larger work packages, you have to have the box checked. I kind of worked out a system probably stupid but I do smaller work during the week & then on Friday I go in to configure check the box & accept a larger work for the weekend. Before that's done I go back in to configure & uncheck the box then carry on.

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WOW, where are you getting all of that from I dont see any of that.

Did I download the wrong thing?

[soup]

No you have the latest version I believe, this is the previous stable version 5.03. It can be downloaded from F@H. Here is the link if anybody is interested. BTW I was also warned to stay away from any beta versions.

[jm1647]

to DAFT and PA

@DAFT - By the listing on the team page I see you completed a work unit already

@PA - I leave mine running 24\7 on 2 machines

@l8nights - I see your back to the fold with DVF also

@soup - I "borrowed" your welcome .gif

[soup]

@ jm1647-anytime for new team members besides I have more.

DAFT.

[jm1647]

@ jm1647-anytime for new team members besides I have more.

Thanks, I seen 'em I just "borrowed" the closest one

[photo_angel2004]

No you have the latest version I believe, this is the previous stable version 5.03. It can be downloaded from F@H. Here is the link if anybody is interested. BTW I was also warned to stay away from any beta versions.

This is what I downloaded and nothing else:

Windows users are adviced to download the "No nonsense" text-only console
=> http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...04-Console.exe

- download this file to your pc
- run it
- choose a nickname
- type in our team number: 51205

Let me see what this other thing is.

Thanks,




Also I dont see this in my programs for uninstalling is this not a program that installs?